AMD does reverse GPGPU, announces OpenCL SDK for x86

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They produce processors too Talonman. I have to admit though, it sounds more like an intel's thing (just a thought. They created x86 anyway. It made me think that AMD did intel a favour).

not really with amd creating the sdk and compiler that allows them to have optimized code, the largest problem with amd server parts is that x86 with heavy int on sse1/2 runs drastically different depending on what compiler u use as to the performance comparison on amd and intel. so this is a huge boost for amd in the long run, since who controls the compiler controls the optimization path for the hardware

it also makes it so intel wont be so hasty to remove the x86 licensing and may give amd enough to claim that they changed x86 enough to get their own rights and wont have to pay licensing for x86 GF parts

I don't think OpenCL runs on top of CUDA API, because it's not a higher level API, but the opposite if any. Obviously, it surely runs on top of CUDA architecture, since that's a commercial name to their architecture, but that has nothing to do with developement times, obviously for all vendors, the API will run on top of their architecture...

open CL is higher than cuda, cuda is a low lvl C, openCL is closer to C++. and there is a cuda interface on the driver that it has to run through no matter what GPGPU language ends up on it.