First Heterogeneous System Architecture 2016 Global Summit Kicked Off Today in Beijing, China

BEIJING, CHINA--(Marketwired - August 22, 2016) - The highly anticipated Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) 2016 Global Summit kicked off today here in Beijing. The two-day event (Aug. 22-23) is co-sponsored by the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation and the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) and is drawing standing room only audiences at the Beijing Yizhuang Fengda International Hotel.

Dozens of influential IP suppliers, processor design companies, tools vendors, software vendors and operating system companies in China's processor-related industrial chain are participating in the Summit, together with numerous mobile manufacturers, unmanned aerial vehicles and robotics application developers, universities and research institutes, and investment institutions.

The HSA summit is also supported by the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone (E-Town), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China (MIIT), and Cyberspace Administration of China.

The HSA Summit is discussing topics surrounding heterogeneous system architecture, including various HSA applications in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Software Defined Radio, Internet-of-Things, and more.

Supporting Quotes

"We're excited to be hosting the first HSA 2016 Global Summit here in Beijing. A few months ago we released the HSA 1.1 specification that greatly enhances the ability to integrate open and proprietary IP blocks in heterogeneous designs. We're now seeing an array of HSA compliant solutions entering the market and during the summit HSA member companies will be presenting further technical details and demonstrating HSA compatible systems."

• Dr. John Glossner, President, HSA Foundation

"HSA is now allowing developers not only in China -- but worldwide -- to efficiently apply hardware resources -- from CPUs to GPUs, DSPs to FPGAs -- in today's complex systems-on-chip (SoC). We're seeing developments across numerous applications, some of which include mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT), HPC, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and much more. The HSA ecosystem is also growing rapidly in China and we look forward to further collaborative endeavors with our colleagues here. We are also thankful for AMD's continued investment in HSA technologies and its open source efforts via the ROCm platform that bring rich HSA-enabled drivers, runtimes, compiler and tools to the global developer community."