AMD Joins Open Source With Framewave

“Chip vendor AMD wants to help developers produce applications
that are faster than ever before. To do that AMD has open sourced
its AMD Performance Library (APL) as the Framewave open source
project.

“AMD claims that it has been working on APL (now Framewave) for
almost three years and that over 3200 performance routine
optimizations are now part of the library. The AMD effort is
intended to be open and not exclude other chip vendors like Intel,
though Intel has its own open source effort for driving
optimizations…”

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