Commenting on: AMD Fusion ‘11 Summit attracts ARM, Microsoft - heterogeneous computing & OpenCL

BSN interviewed John Taylor, Director of Client Product and Software Marketing at AMD, regarding the upcoming Fusion Developer Summit to be held June 13-16, 2011 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington.

Both Microsoft and Arm will be giving keynotes at the event.  ARM is going to reiterate their commitment to OpenCL with their own Mali series GPU, tying nicely to AMD’s Fusion APUs, i.e. Ontario (9W) and Zacate (18W) and upcoming Llano APUs (up to 95W). 

Also noteworthy from the interview:

With Fusion architecture, CPU (ok, APU) is getting a driver update each and every month…