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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...

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. August 28, 2012—Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced its OpenCL (Open Computing Language) for FPGAs Early Access Program (EAP), enabling customers to get a first look at ...

Altera's SDK for OpenCL is designed to put OpenCL code into an FPGA without requiring any additional FPGA design expertise. Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it ...

Altera Passes OpenCL Conformance with High-Performance Stratix V FPGA and Demonstrates SDK for OpenCL on ARM-based Cyclone V SoCs San Jose, Calif., October 16, 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) ...

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 ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ReFLEX CES, an established ALTERA Design Service Network (DSN) members will showcase at Super Computing 2015 Exhibition (SC15) a High Performance Computing (HPC) OpenCL BSP ...

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 ...

Over the course of the last year in particular, particularly following Intel’s acquisition of FPGA maker, Altera, field programmable gate array have risen to the fore as a potential accelerator cure ...