AMD announces unified SDK, tools and accelerated libraries

SUNNYVALE, USA: AMD kicked off its 2013 Developer Summit (APU13) by announcing a new unified SDK, an improved CodeXL tool suite with added

features and support for the latest AMD hardware, and added heterogeneous acceleration in popular Open Source libraries.

Together, these tools provide a substantial step forward in productivity and ease-of-use for developers wishing to harness the full power of modern heterogeneous platforms spanning form servers to PCs to handheld devices.

"Developers are essential to our mission of realizing the full potential of modern computing technologies;" said Manju Hegde, corporate VP, Heterogeneous Solutions, AMD. "Enriching the developer experience by harnessing these technologies is a critical part of AMD's mission to accelerate developer adoption."

To achieve this common mission, AMD is announcing improvements across four fronts:

* The unified SDK includes AMD APP SDK 2.9 and is the most user-friendly heterogeneous computing SDK yet. It provides improved ease of use and developer productivity by adding several new capabilities.

* The unified SDK also includes the Media SDK v1.0 beta release. This will be AMD's first public release of the Media SDK, which enables developers to leverage AMD's unique and differentiated multimedia capabilities.

* The unified SDK also promotes new heterogeneous acceleration optimizations in several open source libraries with the goal of making it simple for developers to accelerate applications. These include: OpenCV now with many OpenCL accelerated functions.

* The latest CodeXL tools suite AMD's comprehensive heterogeneous developer tool offering, now supports Java, the world's most popular programming language.

To further AMD's efforts to provide the best integrated tool suite, AMD has incorporated static kernel analysis capabilities.

"AMD continues to deliver excellent heterogeneous programming developer tools for OpenCL, the industry standard for heterogeneous programming;" said Bill Richard, VP of software development at Winzip. "AMD's tools have been instrumental in our efforts to deliver significant application performance improvements to our customers."

These new product releases represent another step forward toward AMD's goals of supporting cross-platform solutions multiple programming languages and continued contributions to the Open Source community. This is part of AMD's ongoing commitment to make heterogeneous computing pervasive and mainstream.

AMD also announced at APU13 the details about "Kaveri," the third generation performance APU from AMD, during a keynote delivered by Dr. Lisa Su, senior VP and GM, global business units, AMD.

'Kaveri' is the first APU with HSA features, AMD TrueAudio technology and AMD's Mantle API combining to bring the next level of graphics, compute and efficiency to desktops , notebooks, embedded APUs and servers.

FM2+ shipments to customers are slated to begin in late 2013 with initial availability in customer desktop offerings scheduled for Jan. 14, 2014. Further details will be announced at CES 2014.

In addition to the 'Kaveri' announcement, Dr. Su highlighted AMD's leadership in APU technology and heterogeneous compute capabilities, and discussed the developer-centric future of AMD technology.

With graphics, gaming, performance mobile clients and embedded devices growing in prevalence, AMD is at the epicenter of this convergence, and is equipped with the necessary IP to execute on this opportunity for our customers.

To enable these growing ecosystems, Dr. Su made commitments to continue supporting programming tools and platforms like HSA, Mantle, OpenCL, C++ AMP and Microsoft DirectX that are important to application and game developers.