AMD unlikely to adopt CUDA from NVIDIA

The CUDA, NVIDIA’s extension to C language for general purpose GPU (GPGPU) computation, is reported to be unlikely seen on its competitor’s product lines. It is not surprising to see that AMD drops the support for the CUDA as AMD has its own proprietary flavor of GPGPU, called Stream, although it is slightly lagged behind the CUDA technology. But now this is not important, as AMD claims that it is now focusing on a more general approach, i.e. the OpenCL standard proposed first by Apple Inc. The OpenCL supports a large variety of hardwares, and serves as a strong candidate for the heterogeneous CPU/GPU computation environment.