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 ...

Altera has announced general availability of its SDK for OpenCL designed to allow software programmers to more easily offload compute-intensive functions to FPGA hardware. With SDK for OpenCL, ...

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 ...

San Jose, Calif., November 5, 2012– Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced the FPGA industry’s first Software Development Kit (SDK) for OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language) which ...

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 ...

Altera has announced that one of its early customers in the OpenCL for FPGAs programme, goHDR has ported its proprietary C-code to the OpenCL standard and implemented the code in an FPGA “in less than ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Nov. 17, 2015 -- The leading server vendor Inspur Group and the FPGA chipmaker Altera today launched a speech recognition acceleration solution based on Altera's Arria® 10 FPGAs 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 ...