Advanced Micro Devices has turned to graphic chip technology to boost the power of its latest high-end processor, the FireStream 9170 Stream Processor, unveiled Thursday. The hybrid chip taps into the “massive parallel processing power” found in graphics processing units and leverages it to meet the needs of the demanding high-performance computing market, AMD said. The FireStream 9170 is aimed at companies that regularly perform complex computations, such as those in the scientific and oil and gas industries.
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New AMD Chip Takes Double-Barrel Approach to Stream Processing
Posted by: Walaika Haskins November 8, 2007 03:06 PMAdvanced Micro Devices has turned to graphic chip technology to boost the power of its latest high-end processor, the FireStream 9170 Stream Processor, unveiled Thursday. The hybrid chip taps into the “massive parallel processing power” found in graphics processing units and leverages it to meet the needs of the demanding high-performance computing market, AMD said. The FireStream 9170 is aimed at companies that regularly perform complex computations, such as those in the scientific and oil and gas industries.