SUNNYVALE, Calif.  —10/14/2013 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced the addi­ti­on of Domi­nic Mal­lin­son, vice pre­si­dent, Rese­arch & Deve­lo­p­ment, Sony Com­pu­ter Enter­tain­ment Ame­ri­ca, and Brendan Iri­be, CEO, Ocu­lus VR, to the lin­e­up of key­note spea­k­ers at AMD Deve­lo­per Sum­mit (APU13), streng­thening an alre­a­dy stel­lar ros­t­er of key­note spea­k­ers. The third annu­al, three-day event will be held in San Jose, Calif., Nov. 11–13, and pro­vi­des atten­de­es the oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence and learn the latest advance­ments, tools, and tech­ni­ques in the hete­ro­ge­neous com­pu­ting eco­sys­tem inclu­ding Hete­ro­ge­neous Sys­tems Archi­tec­tu­re (HSA), Man­t­le, Open­CL™, C++AMP, OpenGL, APU, GPU and den­se ser­ver technology.

“We are hono­red to be one of the key­note pre­sen­ters at the 2013 AMD Deve­lo­per Sum­mit,” said Brendan Iri­be, CEO, Ocu­lus VR. “This sum­mit is the epi­cen­ter of new and revo­lu­tio­na­ry tech­no­lo­gies that will trans­form the future of com­pu­ting, and an ide­al venue to show­ca­se our shared thin­king in the deve­lo­p­ments in hete­ro­ge­neous com­pu­ting. Joi­ning AMD ons­ta­ge is tru­ly an orga­nic collaboration.”

AMD pre­vious­ly announ­ced a num­ber of new addi­ti­ons to the APU13 pro­gram, inclu­ding Gam­ing and Inno­va­ti­on Sum­mits. The AMD Ven­tures Inno­va­ti­on Sum­mit show­ca­ses seve­ral dis­rup­ti­ve, high growth soft­ware port­fo­lio com­pa­nies from AMD Ven­tures and the AMD eco­sys­tem, inclu­ding com­pa­nies that can trans­form next gene­ra­ti­on gam­ing, mul­ti­me­dia social net­wor­king, pro­duc­ti­vi­ty gra­phics, plat­form vir­tua­liza­ti­on, human com­pu­ter inter­face, big data and dat­a­cen­ter tech­no­lo­gies. The­se pio­nee­ring start­ups will be show­ca­sed in a varie­ty of events inclu­ding chief exe­cu­ti­ve pre­sen­ta­ti­ons, CEO net­wor­king events, expe­ri­ence hub pre­sen­ta­ti­ons and demos, and a Ven­ture Capi­tal Panel of inves­tors from GGV Capi­tal, Khos­la Ven­tures, Men­lo Ventures.

Simi­lar­ly, the Gam­ing Sum­mit will show­ca­se ISV part­ner­ships and the world’s top game deve­lo­pers who are deli­ve­ring the next gene­ra­ti­on of gam­ing and game tech­no­lo­gies. Johan Anders­son, Chief Archi­tect at DICE, will deli­ver a much anti­ci­pa­ted key­note cen­te­red on Man­t­le, AMD’s ground-brea­king new pro­gramming inter­face for game deve­lo­pers. Games enab­led with Man­t­le speak the lan­guage of the Gra­phics Core Next archi­tec­tu­re to unlock unpre­ce­den­ted per­for­mance and gra­phics quality.

Addi­tio­nal­ly, AMD today announ­ced the new­ly added Influen­cer Insights pro­gram. The pro­gram gives con­fe­rence atten­de­es the oppor­tu­ni­ty to be part of small groups who will par­ti­ci­pa­te in exclu­si­ve con­ver­sa­ti­ons with indus­try lea­ders inclu­ding Nan­di­ni Rama­ni, VP, Java, of Ora­cle, Domi­nic Mal­lin­son, VP, R&D, of Sony, Oscar-win­ner Gary Demos, Pro­fes­sor Wen-Mei, CTO of Mul­ti­core­Ware, Shawn Car­na­han, CTO of Telestream, and Chien-Ping Lu, Sr. Direc­tor of Media­tek. The­se ses­si­ons will pro­vi­de can­did insights and ana­ly­sis regar­ding new dis­rup­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies that will chan­ge the future of com­pu­ting and end user experiences.

“The APU13 pro­gram this year brings an espe­ci­al­ly strong key­note lin­e­up tog­e­ther with detail­ed tech­ni­cal ses­si­ons, ensu­ring that sum­mit atten­de­es will enga­ge with indus­try lea­ders who are at the epi­cen­ter of a new era of hete­ro­ge­neous com­pu­ting,” said Man­ju Heg­de, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, Hete­ro­ge­neous Solu­ti­ons at AMD. “The deve­lo­per sum­mit will faci­li­ta­te uni­que con­ver­sa­ti­ons and net­wor­king with top minds from the deve­lo­per and com­pu­ting communities.”

AMD is proud to announ­ce seve­ral high-level spon­sors of the 2013 Deve­lo­per Sum­mit, APU13:

• Mul­ti­core­Ware, Pre­mier Spon­sor, is a soft­ware solu­ti­ons com­pa­ny pro­vi­ding tools, packa­ged libra­ri­es, and ser­vices to levera­ge mul­ti­co­re archi­tec­tures. The­se solu­ti­ons are in a ran­ge of com­pu­te-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons across seve­ral CPU, GPU and DSP plat­forms, such as the AMD APUs, mobi­le SoCs, as well as dis­crete SPU and DSP architectures.
• HP, Pre­mier Sponsor
• HSA Foun­da­ti­on, HSA Expo Sponsor
• Sili­con Val­ley Bank, Inno­va­ti­on Sum­mit Sponsor
• Other APU13 spon­sors include: Ado­be, Path­Part­ners, Sap­phi­re Tech­no­lo­gy, and USB-IF

Regis­tra­ti­on for APU13 is open and tickets can be purcha­sed for $695 for gene­ral audi­ence atten­de­es through Nov. 11, 2013 or $345 for a sin­gle day. AMD has deve­lo­ped a tracks and ses­si­on over­view that allows atten­de­es to view and plan cus­tom sche­du­les for their own APU13 expe­ri­ence. For more infor­ma­ti­on about APU13 tracks and regis­tra­ti­on details, visit the APU13 web­site at developer.amd.com/apu.

Supporting Resources

• 2013 AMD Deve­lo­per Sum­mit, APU13
• View high­lights from 2012 AMD Deve­lo­per Summit
• For the latest APU13 updates, fol­low @AMD
• Beco­me a fan of AMD on Face­book

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