Altera is looking to put OpenCL (Open Computing Language) into FPGA hardware. This could give GPUs a run for the money when it comes to accelerating parallel processing. It could also increase ...

Altera's SDK for OpenCL is designed to put OpenCL code into an FPGA without requiring any additional FPGA design expertise. Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it ...

The folks from Altera have just announced a development program focused on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) standard for FPGAs and SoC FPGAs(see also OpenCL gets upgrade, Altera tips FPGA tool).

This product is featured in EDN's Hot 100 products of 2015. See all 100 here. The Xilinx SDAccel integrated development environment for OpenCL, C, and C++ complies with the Khronos OpenCL 1.0 ...

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...

San Jose, Calif. August 28, 2012—Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced its OpenCL (Open Computing Language) for FPGAs Early Access Program (EAP), enabling customers to get a first look at ...

Altera has announced that one of its early customers in the OpenCL for FPGAs programme, goHDR has ported its proprietary C-code to the OpenCL standard and implemented the code in an FPGA “in less than ...

The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. Recent work from Boston University has ...

Altera Passes OpenCL Conformance with High-Performance Stratix V FPGA and Demonstrates SDK for OpenCL on ARM-based Cyclone V SoCs San Jose, Calif., October 16, 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) ...

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...