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Industry consortium to tackle open spec for software use across multicore devices

HSA Foundation will aim to make multicore programming easy and portable

By Agam Shah, IDG News Service, 06/12/12

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ARM and x86 CPUs differ in the way they interact with media, security, or graphics cores, McCarron said. HSA Foundation's specification could release the worry about software design and potentially help chipmakers sell more cores, McCarron said.

The HSA Foundation is led by AMD, which in February announced an HSA strategy to bring software development tools so that coders can write portable applications for multicore chips. AMD that month also fundamentally changed the way it develops chips, allowing for the integration of third-party intellectual property so customized chips can be designed to specific customer needs.

AMD is partnering with companies like ARM and Texas Instruments, which have a lot of intellectual property, McCarron said. There's nothing that precludes Intel from joining HSA Foundation, but Intel wants to differentiate with its intellectual property, McCarron said. Intel can also afford to go alone as it controls manufacturing of chips and has its own embedded software development team.

Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is agam_shah@idg.com

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.