AMD develops Fusion Center of Innovation

AMD has established the first AMD Fusion Center of Innovation at the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

With this the company aims to focus on the innovative developer environment, and software performance advancements enabled by heterogeneous computing.

The center will fund, mentor and promote new commercial enterprises emerging from the intellectual property and research expertise in the university of Illinois community. With access to AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology and platforms, the center will also help to bridge access to new AMD heterogeneous computing technology with the innovative spirit stimulated and nurtured on campus, said AMD.

The university is also offering a course, aimed at enhancing the spirit of entrepreneurship by bringing a mix of expert speakers to cover the specifics of AMD heterogeneous computing technology, while also providing invaluable, how-to background on entrepreneurship, commercialization and start-up creation.

This course will be offered by the university's college of engineering, Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC), as ''ENG/TE 360/460: Lectures in Engineering Entrepreneurship AMD section.''

''We believe heterogeneous computing will be the enabler for innovative user interfaces and immersive computing experiences, which will ultimately be driven by aspiring and audacious students. The university of Illinois will serve as a model for future AMD Fusion Centers of Innovation around the world,'' said Manju Hegde, corporate VP, AMD Fusion Experience Program.