AMD Leads Industry as First Chip Supplier to Offer OpenCL™ Development Kit that Supports GPUs and x86 CPUs

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced availability of a key piece of its strategy to help improve the end-user’s compute experience by leveraging the combined power of AMD graphics processors (GPUs) and AMD multi-core x86 processors through software. With the beta release of its ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.0, featuring OpenCL 1.0 support, AMD provides a free set of tools software developers can use to create applications that are accelerated by AMD GPUs and AMD multi-core x86 CPUs working together. The ATI Stream SDK v2.0 is certified compliant with OpenCL 1.0 by the Khronos Working Group.

The ATI Stream SDK v2.0 beta is available for download today and can be accessed here.

AMD’s ATI Stream technology supports both OpenCL 1.0 and DirectX® 11 DirectCompute application programming interfaces.

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