The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...

Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it translates well to CPUs as well. About a year ago Altera talked about their work in bringing OpenCL applications to FPGAs (see ...

Altera is looking to put OpenCL (Open Computing Language) into FPGA hardware. This could give GPUs a run for the money when it comes to accelerating parallel processing. It could also increase ...

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...

Heterogeneous computing refers to a growing class of systems in which an application is executed on a mixture of dissimilar processor and accelerator devices to maximize throughput. The execution of a ...

Altera has announced a software development kit (SDK) for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), for use with its FPGA, which combines the parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL parallel ...

San Jose, Calif., November 15 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the first successful demonstration of the Suricata Engine, an open-source Network Intrusion Detection and ...

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...

Chip giant Intel has been talking about CPU-FPGA compute complexes for so long that it is hard to remember sometimes that its hybrid Xeon-Arria compute unit, which puts a Xeon server chip and a ...