FANUC - japanischer Weltmarktführer für Roboter - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

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Bin durch einen Fondsmanager von First Eagle auf den Wert aufmerksam geworden.

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KGV von 13, mehr als 50% der Bilanzsumme in cash vorhanden.

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- momentaner Börsenwert ca. 12 Mrd. €
- Umsatz 08/09 ca.3 Mrd. €

- Cash ca. 3,3 Mrd. €
- Eigenkapital ca. 5,4 Mrd. €


KUV ca.4
KBV > 2

(.......ich hoffe ich habe mich nicht verrechnet)

http://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/irlibrary/pdf/sihanki40-1_e.pdf


Im Vergleich zu SONY oder auch SHARP, die momentan bei KBV 1 oder knapp drüber liegen, also nicht gerade ein "Schnäppchen"......
........ aber nicht uninteressant.






http://quote.yahoo.co.jp/q?s=6954.t&d=c&k=c3&z=m&h=on


.........kommt auf die Watchlist. Danke für den Tip !


Gruß

aufsicht

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FANUC'S STOCK SOARS WITH OUTLOOK CUT SEEN AS END TO BAD NEWS
Tue. October 28, 2008; Posted: 11:44 PM


TOKYO, Oct 29, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- FANUF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating --

Fanuc Ltd. (TSE:6954) advanced sharply Tuesday, gaining 890 yen (US$9.04), or 17 per cent, to close at 6,000 yen as the firm's reduced earnings outlook, announced the same day, was apparently taken as a sign that sell incentives had been exhausted.

The stock finished the morning session up 3 per cent. Immediately after the afternoon session began, the company lowered its earnings forecast. This seems to have encouraged investors who had already anticipated a deterioration in profit to pick up the shares. The stock also got a boost from a robust rebound in the broader market.

Citing a slowdown in demand for machine tools amid the global economic downturn, Fanuc cut its group net profit outlook to 103.3 billion yen for the year ending in March, down 19 per cent on the year and falling short of an earlier projection by 16.4 billion yen. With its payout target at 30 per cent, the firm also reduced its dividend forecast.

Fanuc shares had tumbled in recent months as stock markets slid worldwide. Its stock sank to a year-to-date low of 4,800 yen on Friday, down about 60 per cent from their 2008 high in June.

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Freitag, 09.01.2009
Fanuc Roboshot: Muttergesellschaft Fanuc übernimmt JV-Anteile von Mitsui

Wie ein Sprecher auf Nachfrage von KI bestätigte, hat die Fanuc Ltd (Oshino-mura / Japan) die Anteile von Partner Mitsui & Co Ltd (Deutschland: Düsseldorf) am 50/50-Joint Venture Fanuc Roboshot Europe GmbH (Neuhausen) komplett übernommen. Gleiches gilt auch für die Tochterunternehmen in Frankreich und Großbritannien. Fanuc und Mitsui hatten das Gemeinschaftsunternehmen Ende 2005 gegründet, um den Vertrieb der vollelektrischen Roboshot-Spritzgießmaschinen in Europa voranzutreiben.

Ob Fanuc auch die Anteile der in Thailand, Malaysia und Russland bestehenden gleichartigen Joint Ventures erwirbt, war zunächst nicht zu erfahren.

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JAPANESE ROBOT CO FANUC SLASHES NET PROFIT, DIVIDEND FORECASTS
Tuesday 01/27/2009 10:41 PM ET - Asia Pulse

Industrial robot maker Fanuc Ltd. (TSE:6954) said Tuesday that it now expects net profit to drop 29 per cent in the year ending March 31 and also cut its estimated dividend payout, citing plunging capital spending by manufacturers worldwide.

Group net profit is forecast at 90.6 billion yen (US$1.015 billion), down from an earlier projection of 103.3 billion yen. The estimated dividend payment for the current fiscal year was lowered to 130.8 yen per share from 149.13 yen.

"Since October, demand has been plunging in a way we have never seen before," President Yoshiharu Inaba said.

Fanuc expects sales to fall 17 per cent on the year to 388.4 billion yen. Orders for computer-controlled machine tools are down, and sales of industrial robots are suffering as automakers put off or freeze factory upgrades. Every division is expected to post revenue declines.

The company also reported October-December quarter earnings Tuesday. Sales fell 18 per cent on the year to 103.1 billion yen, while net profit tumbled 35 per cent to 23.7 billion yen.

Fanuc maintains a dividend payout ratio of 30 per cent. It paid an annual dividend of 183.35 yen in the previous fiscal year.

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Apr 24, 2009 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- LNAGY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a joint venture between General Electric Company (NYSE: GE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and FANUC LTD of Japan, a technology company and a global provider of hardware, software, services and expertise in automation and embedded computing, announced on Thursday (23 April) that Linde AG, a gas and engineering company, has chosen the Proficy Historian and Proficy Plant Applications, part of GE Fanuc's Operations Management software suite, for use in its plants worldwide.

The order, which also includes GE Fanuc's GlobalCare support services, is valued at over USD1.0m and will be deployed in 350 sites worldwide.

The Proficy solution is the basis of a Plant Line Information Management System, consisting of a centralised historical database installation.

GE said that the Linde Plant Information Management system is completed with its Proficy Plant Applications to process raw data, calculate and evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) to act on current business data.

In addition, GE Fanuc will install Proficy Real-Time Information Portal to enable Linde management to retrieve production data and determine cost influences caused by certain production events.

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21.07.2009 15:06
Noetix Delivers Access to Data at FANUC AMERICA Following Oracle Implementation

With Noetix, FANUC AMERICA Managers Build Operational Reports without IT Assistance and Gain Immediate Access to Business Information

Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence (BI) content from enterprise applications, today announced it provided FANUC AMERICA Corp. with immediate access to 98 percent of its Oracle E-Business Suite data following the Noetix implementation.

FANUC AMERICA, a provider of factory automation and robotization to the manufacturing industry worldwide, had relied on a highly functional 25-year-old legacy IT system for all of their operational and business processing when the company made the decision to transition to Oracle E-Business Suite version 11.5.10 in 2007. Under the legacy system, the company’s end users had access to hundreds of custom reports, which were developed over the past two decades. They relied heavily on the IT department’s development strength to custom build the necessary business reports to satisfy both operational and executive demand. FANUC AMERICA’s situation changed dramatically after the Oracle implementation.

”When we first went live with Oracle, we lost significant accessibility to our data, along with ad hoc reporting and analytic capabilities,” said Zach Heuer, General Manager, Information Technology Division at FANUC AMERICA. ”We literally had to start over when it came to accessing our data in Oracle. We couldn’t even report on simple things you’d typically take for granted with a package solution.”

This lack of access to information meant that FANUC AMERICA’s leadership was unable make the informed business decisions they had counted on in the past. Along with the worldwide economic slowdown, the company found itself in a tough situation.

After much due diligence, FANUC AMERICA purchased Noetix Platform, Noetix Search, and NoetixViews to access information within its more than 40 Oracle modules. ”The implementation took approximately three weeks and at the end of that time we had access to 98 percent of our data out-of-the-box, running reports for all areas of the business,” said Heuer.

Today 30 end users representing management from all parts of the FANUC AMERICA business are using Noetix to independently access the data they require to create 20 to 30 new reports each month. The burden on IT to create custom reports has been relieved and the IT personnel that were previously dedicated to developing reports on a full time basis have been re-focused on other areas, providing a higher level of value to the business.

”We completed our implementation two months ago and we are amazed to see users creating so many quality reports and being so self-sufficient this quickly,” said Heuer.

Operational executives have reported back to Heuer that they are seeing huge benefits with the Noetix solution, and end users report they are able to make more informed decisions. Dedicated to providing the best customer service, FANUC AMERICA originally targeted key areas around response, availability, delivery, and complete customer satisfaction. With the help of Noetix they have already achieved success in improving their internal processes and ultimately increasing their ability to serve customers.

”From an executive standpoint, it’s great to be able to see this level of communication and feedback finally coming back into our meetings,” said Heuer. ”For the last two years we had to rely on a sense that our business was moving in a certain way, but we didn’t have hard numbers to prove anything. Now that we’ve rectified that situation, it’s pleasing to be able to integrate more strategy and planning back into our business.”

About FANUC AMERICA

Established in 1977, FANUC AMERICA is a wholly owned subsidiary of FANUC Ltd., which provides factory automation and robotization to the manufacturing industry worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago, and with over 30 U.S. locations, FANUC AMERICA is a strategic part of the FANUC Ltd. Worldwide Service&Support Network, deeply committed to providing FANUC service and support for total customer satisfaction.

About Noetix

More than 1,400 customers worldwide use Noetix to quickly and cost-effectively access the enterprise application data they need to make important business decisions every day. By providing instant, configuration-specific operational reporting and ad hoc query for Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Siebel CRM, Noetix delivers the fastest time to business answers. Our patented, metadata-driven technology and lean architecture deliver immediate access to data, resulting in the lowest-cost BI solution to acquire, implement, and maintain. Easy search and navigation capability allows users to create ad hoc reports and answer their own operational questions without additional assistance from IT staff. Noetix’s proven technology is being used by industry-leading customers worldwide, including: Cummins, Motorola, Starbucks, Toshiba, Welch’s, and Visa. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Wash., with international operations in London and Hyderabad, India.

Noetix is a registered trademark of Noetix Corp.

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JAPAN'S FANUC FOUNDER EYES HIGHER SALES OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
Friday 07/31/2009 12:23 AM ET - Asia Pulse

Japan's Fanuc Ltd. (TSE:6954) will step up marketing of high-performance industrial robots, Honorary Chairman Seiuemon Inaba said Thursday.

The firm will "focus on lifting sales of industrial robots," the 84-year-old Inaba, company founder, said in his first media interview in nine years.

Inaba set a bullish sales goal for a small robot released in April that is capable of assembling precision parts for electric machinery, targeting 1, 000 units a month -- several times the regular monthly sales figure, even amid sagging demand.

To boost sales of the robot, Fanuc on Thursday launched a dedicated team with 30 members.

"The robot is for industrial machinery, which covers many sectors, and one robot can perform the work of three people," Inaba said. "We expect strong demand in Japan, Europe and the U.S., where companies are working on cutting labor costs."

Inaba also gave a bright outlook for Fanuc's business with automakers.

"Manufacturing of hybrid vehicles will gain further momentum in Europe and the U.S.," Inaba predicted, saying that his firm is receiving orders from such carmakers as General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler LLC, Volkswagen AG and PSA Peugeot Citroen.

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GE And Fanuc Announce Deal To Dissolve GE Fanuc Automation Joint Venture
8/17/2009 9:48 PM ET


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(RTTNews) - Monday, global infrastructure, finance and media company General Electric Co. (GE: News ) and Japan-based FANUC said that they have agreed to dissolve the GE Fanuc Automation Corporation joint venture with a view to pursue and grow their respective core industry expertise.

Under the terms of the agreement, GE will retain the software, services, embedded systems and control systems businesses globally. The company will be known as GE Intelligent Platforms, and will be led by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms chief executive officer Maryrose Sylvester. FANUC, which makes factory automation robots, will retain the global CNC business.

Both companies expect the deal be completed by the end of this year, subject to satisfactory customary closing conditions.

Established in 1986 by the joint investments of GE and FANUC, GE Fanuc Automation Corporation serves a vast array of industries around the world. The partnership delivers hardware and software solutions, services, automation and embedded computing systems; as well as industry-leading CNC products.
Sylvester said, "For GE, this change will mean a continued, intense focus on serving our customers around the world while continuing to invest in significant growth platforms like process control systems, enterprise and automation software and embedded computing as we continue to build further expertise around the GE vertical infrastructure segments."

GE declined $0.56 or 4.02% and closed Monday's regular trading session at $13.36. After hours, GE declined further $0.01 or 0.07% and traded at $13.35.

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20.08.2009 12:20
UPDATE 2-Fanuc in $949 mln share buyback, Fujitsu may sell

TOKYO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Japanese industrial robot maker Fanuc Ltd will buy back 89.5 billion yen ($949 million) worth of its shares, and shareholder Fujitsu Ltd said it was considering selling its stake.

Fanuc said it will buy back 5 percent of its shares outstanding at Thursday's closing price of 7,460 yen through the Tokyo Stock Exchange's off-hours share buyback platform before the market opens on Friday.

Fujitsu, Japan's biggest IT services company, holds a 5 percent stake in Fanuc and could try to sell its entire stake, spokesman Takashi Koto said, adding that nothing had been decided.

Fanuc said it wanted to secure flexibility in capital management.

Shares in Fanuc are up 18.6 percent from the start of the calendar year, and a share sale could be a windfall for Fujitsu, which is hurrying to restructure its loss-making chip operations and expand its presence in IT services abroad.

Fujitsu President Kuniaki Nozoe said last month he was unhappy with Fujitsu's capital strength but saw no immediate need to raise capital. Shareholders' equity ratio in Fujitsu was 22 percent at the end of June.

Fujitsu, which hopes to remodel itself after bigger rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard, has gradually whittled away its 38.9 percent stake in Fanuc.

($1=94.31 Yen)

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29.08.2009 13:47
Innovative Energy Systems Produces 60 Megawatts of Usable Energy From Landfill Gas With GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Hardware and Software

Environmentally friendly solution meets global need for cleaner, cost-effective energy sources

In the true spirit of environmental consciousness, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ customer Innovative Energy Systems (IES) has developed a clean energy solution that recovers methane gas from landfills and converts it into electricity as an alternative energy source. The solution uses GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ controllers, HMI/SCADA software and operator interface equipment to facilitate the processing of the gas and keep the system running efficiently and effectively, providing Innovative Energy with a sustainable and competitive advantage.

IES, headquartered in New York State, has nine plants in New York and Vermont, producing more than 60 megawatts of capacity with more than 25 additional megawatts coming online over the next two years. In addition to its own facilities, the company also designs and constructs plants using this innovative system for other companies.

”With increasing global demand for more cost-effective, cleaner energy sources, OEMs and energy operators must uncover additional efficiencies to gain and sustain a competitive advantage,” said Maryrose Sylvester, president and CEO of GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. ”The mix of products used by Innovative Energy Systems is a great example of how GE Fanuc solutions enable control and management of assets in a secure, scalable and integrated environment.”

IES utilizes GE Fanuc controllers on its proprietary gas collection and scrubber unit and other equipment used to collect and process the gas. GE Fanuc’s QuickPanel® View and Proficy® HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY monitor kilowatt-hours produced, display engine diagnostics, fuel flow and quality. This solution also provides an overview of the gas scrubbing system operation. IES plant managers use the system on a daily basis to monitor the engines and gas scrubbing system. This information allows the plant managers insight to complete preventative maintenance, which limits downtime events of the engines. Information includes: generator loading and unloading, alarm history, engine diagnostics including engine hours, oil temp and pressure, jacket water temp and pressure, fuel flow and quality, and exhaust port temperatures.

”We just cannot afford any downtime in our system,” said Peter H. Zeliff, President of IES. ”Just one hour of the system not running could cost up to $20,000. Whatever electricity we generate has to get on the grid in order for us to make money as it is sold on the day ahead market. The GE Fanuc system has proved to be very reliable and have helped us to maintain an online availability of 98% or more.”

GE Fanuc controllers and I/O systems span the range of automation needs and are designed to meet the demand for versatile industrial solutions and are used in high speed packaging, material handling, complex motion control, water treatment, continuous emissions monitoring, mining, food processing, elevator control, and injection molding.

The QuickPanel View bundled visualization solution provides the tools IES required with a combination of bright touch screen displays, multiple communications options, and Proficy View - Machine Edition software. Acting as the bridge between the enterprise system and the plant floor, QuickPanel View is providing information, not just data, that the operators need to run the machines, and that management needs to run the business. The QuickPanel View is built on the Microsoft® Windows CE operating system and features web server access to data and panels using any standard browser.

And, the client/server based visualization and control solution that actually helps visualize operations, perform supervisory automation and deliver reliable information to higher-level analytic applications is GE Fanuc’s award-winning Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY. With the latest features of CIMPLICITY 8.0, including a powerful graphics engine, dynamic time handling and digital graphical replay (DGR) 2.0, operators and engineers have the power and security to precisely monitor and control every aspect of their environment, equipment and resources. The results: faster response, reduced costs and increased profitability.

Making Something Out Of Nothing

Landfill gases are colorless vapors produced at solid waste landfills where trash and garbage are buried in the ground and covered with dirt. Over time, bacteria in the soils will break down organic wastes in the landfill. The by-product of these bacteria breaking down the garbage will produce gases. The amount and type of landfill gas depends on a number of factors such as the amount of garbage buried, the age of the landfill, the depth of the landfill, and the chemical environment inside the landfill.

Landfill gas consists of methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas that is a key contributor to global climate change, over 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Methane also has a short, 10-year, atmospheric life. Because methane is both potent and short-lived, reducing methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills, the second largest source of methane in the United States, is one of the best ways to achieve a near-term beneficial impact in mitigating global climate change.

It is estimated that a landfill gas to energy projects will capture roughly 60 to 90% of the methane emitted from the landfill, depending on system design and effectiveness. The gas is collected and conveyed using a system of vertical and horizontal wells and a positive displacement blower to the landfill gas to energy facility. Prior to the landfill gas going to the internal combustion engines it is processed through IES’ proprietary gas scrubbing system, which has been designed and developed to provide low maintenance, extended life to the internal combustion engines. The scrubbing system cools the gas and uses dehydration process, which removes particulates and water that otherwise, would have harmed the engines. After the landfill gas is processed through the scrubbing system is it delivered to the internal combustion engines where the captured methane is destroyed, converted to water and a much less potent carbon dioxide, when the gas is burned to produce electricity.

Utilizing methane to produce electricity displaces fossil fuels and avoids carbon dioxide that otherwise would have been released. The electricity can then be distributed to the grid except for a small portion, which is channeled back into operations for reuse in the process.

This innovative company is also using the waste heat generated from jacket water and engine exhaust to heat a 12-acre greenhouse facility that produces vine-ripened, hydroponic tomatoes. The heat generated is transferred in continuous loop from heat exchangers at the company’s power plants to the heat exchangers at the greenhouse. Because of the unique way in which the plants are grown, they have a growth season which lasts approximately eight to nine months, allowing the greenhouse to produce more than 6 million pounds of tomatoes annually.

”Innovative Energy Systems is producing a great example of optimizing a waste source to make something we can all use today and tomorrow,” concluded Sylvester. ”Their reuse of methane gas to produce electricity has a direct and positive impact on the environment.”

About GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a joint venture between General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and FANUC LTD of Japan, is an experienced high-performance technology company and a global provider of hardware, software, services, and expertise in automation and embedded computing. We offer a unique foundation of agile, advanced and ultra-reliable technology that provides customers a sustainable advantage in the industries they serve, including energy, water, consumer packaged goods, government&defense, and telecommunications. GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is a worldwide company headquartered in Charlottesville, VA and is part of GE Enterprise Solutions. For more information, visit www.gefanuc.com.

About GE Enterprise Solutions

GE Enterprise Solutions elevates customers' productivity and profitability with integrated solutions using sensors and non-destructive testing; security and life safety technologies; power system protection and control; and plant automation and embedded computing systems. Enterprise Solutions' high-tech, high-growth businesses include Sensing&Inspection Technologies, Security, Digital Energy, and GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. The business has 17,000 problem-solving employees in more than 60 countries around the world.

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08.10.2009 17:03
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms to Revolutionize Military and Aerospace Embedded Computing with NVIDIA®’s CUDA Technology

Brings GPU-Based Supercomputing to Small, Lightweight, Rugged Embedded Platforms

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced that it had signed an agreement with NVIDIA® Corporation for GE Fanuc to develop new hardware products using NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) based on the award-winning CUDA architecture, for military and aerospace applications. These new products will deliver substantial increases in processing capability for applications and environments that require leading edge computing such as radar, signals intelligence and video surveillance and interpretation.

”There has long been interest in taking the processing performance inherent in state-of-the-art GPUs - such as their massively parallel computing capability - and applying that to problems that have historically been solved using complex DSP and FPGA processor architectures,” said Peter Cavill, General Manager, Military&Aerospace Products at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. ”The CUDA architecture allows us to offer our customers a level of processing performance that surpasses anything else in the industry by a significant margin. NVIDIA GPUs, in effect, bring the power of supercomputing and parallel processing to applications that are size-, weight- and power-constrained, and will enable us to create new generations of powerful mobile military platforms.”

NVIDIA’s CUDA Technology delivers up to 100x increase in speed in a broad range of applications that lend themselves to parallel computing. Early tests at GE Fanuc have shown that military applications will benefit from similar increases in speed. A major prime contractor in the military/aerospace industry has evaluated the CUDA architecture in a radar system, and found that performance improvement of 15x is achievable with minimal reprogramming effort. Other prime contractors are expressing substantial interest in the technology.

”CUDA is becoming increasingly pervasive in a broad range of environments and applications, and has reached a tipping point,” said Taner Ozcelik, General Manager, Embedded Business at NVIDIA. ”We’re delighted to help GE Fanuc revolutionize mission critical embedded computing with CUDA in demanding military and aerospace applications, which have been historically constrained by compute performance.”

In addition to having potential applications in radar, signals intelligence, and video surveillance and interpretation, GPUs based on the CUDA architecture represent outstanding potential in other application areas including target tracking, image stabilization, SAR (synthetic aperture radar) simulation, pattern recognition, video encoding/decoding, graphics rendering, object recognition, in-crowd behavioral monitoring and analysis, cryptography, sensor processing and software defined radio. Traditional graphics applications will also benefit greatly from high performance NVIDIA GPUs.

New GE Fanuc hardware products featuring CUDA-based GPUs will be announced in the fourth quarter. The first board will be 3U VPX-based and will benefit from a broad-ranging supporting infrastructure of other GE Fanuc 3U VPX solutions and services, allowing customers to specify tailored multi-board solutions. Alternatively, a CUDA-enabled 3U VPX rugged graphics subsystem will also be available.

A family of 6U VPX products will feature combinations of Intel® dual core processors and NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs, allowing designers to create highly sophisticated, powerful multi-board solutions for the most demanding applications. This family, as well as the new 3U VPX platform, will additionally support OpenCL.

The CUDA architecture enables programmers to write programs in conventional computing languages to access the massively parallel processing capabilities of the GPU. This architecture, in tandem with the CUDA C language - the same as conventional C with minor extensions - allows developers to achieve transformative increases in performance.

The ease of CUDA development reduces customers’ time to market, enabling substantial performance increases to be gained for minimal investment of time and effort. Application- or porting development can be achieved on a commercial desktop system and transferred to rugged deployable hardware from GE Fanuc.