Hi Everyone, First of I'd like to say that I'm really happy that there is an organised group for tech enthusiasts here in Nepal. (I was starting to loose hope :P)
Anyway, back to the topic: Anyone heard of the HSA(*Heterogeneous System Architecture*) Foundation? It's a non-profit group that is working on* integrating CPUs, GPUs and DSPs*into SoCs. Quite frankly, I didn't think of it much when I first heard of it, but it's implications can be ENORMOUS. Here's a link: http://hsafoundation.com/ So everyone's heard of AMD, right? Well guess what, AMD (in case you didn't hear) released it's series of *Accelerated Processing Units* in 2011, code-named "Llano" and now in 2013, it released it's third generation of APUs, called "Richland". Why am I telling you all this? Fusion, or to say APUs,(Take a look at the Elite A-series APU<http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/a-series/Pages/a-series-pib.aspx>) are turning out to give serious competition to Intel processors. And people all over the globe are starting to see the APU's real potential. *Multi-threaded computing era* saw the world's first commercially available 8-core CPU from the AMD FX Series. (They premiered it by breaking the world record of fasted over-clocked CPU at 8.7GHz on all 8 cores!) Now, It's turning out to be a "*Surround Computing Era*". An era of harnessing the untapped potential of the GPU in *Massive-Scale Parallelism*, * * *Multi-Platform*: From Eye-glasses(see Google Glass<http://www.google.com/glass/start/>) to Room Size! *Natural-UI: *Day-to-Day interactions with the computer will no longer be through the keyboard and mouse, but rather natural. for example, Speech recognition regardless of accents, So I took the closest chance I got to being a part of this, and now I'm in charge of Distribution of AMD products in Nepal. I want you guys to know that these APUs are now available in Nepal. *p.s:* I don't want to sound like "just another marketing spammer" but all the game-changing events happening around us, I just had to post this. I love computers, a hard-core enthusiast. So try taking a bit of your time and looking into this stuff. Here are some resources I think you'd like to take a look at: http://www.slideshare.net/samk47/ap-us-in-nepal-2 http://www.slideshare.net/AMD/amd-ces-2013-press-conference http://www.slideshare.net/AMD/surround-computing-the-future-of-work-play Oh and please please like my page: Miteri Technology<http://www.facebook.com/MiteriTech> Thanks and Cheers, Sankesh, -- -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
