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AMD's redesigns its GPU architecture
Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2013
AMD presented at Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) details about the design of Graphics Core Next (GCN). This new architecture is based on 16 wide SIMD cores which improves GPGPU computing compared to the VLIW5 & VLIW4 used till now.
This new GPU architecture that has been design with GPGPU computing in mind is planned to release later this year, build using TSMC's 28nm technology.