Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

AUSTIN, Texas - Aug. 31, 2012 - Today the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundationannounced six new members. The HSA Foundation is pleased to welcome Apical, ArterisInc., MulticoreWare Inc., Sonics, Symbio and Vivante Corporation to the membership roster. Each company adds expertise tothe HSA ecosystem by assisting with research, development, production,manufacture, use, and the sale of HSA IP and heterogeneous computing softwareand solutions.

These new members have joined atdifferent levels including: supporter, contributor and associate. Workingclosely with the founder members of AMD, ARM, ImaginationTechnologies, MediaTek Inc., SamsungElectronics and Texas Instruments (TI), the newmembers will contribute to the growing adoption of HSA in heterogeneouscomputing.

“As the wordgets out about the HSAFoundation, we’re experiencing a groundswell of support from a wide range ofcompanies that are interested in power-efficiency and heterogeneous computing,”said Greg Stoner, vice president and managing director of the HSA Foundation.“HSA will enable the next era of computing from mobile and embedded to HPC andcloud computing, but it requires having a full value chain in place fromsilicon to IP to ISVs.”

New Member Quotes

Supporter

· Arteris - a leading supplier ofnetwork-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP solutions

“HSA will usher in a new era of advanced processingcapabilities,” said K.Charles Janac, president and chief executive officer ofArteris. “Tooptimize for power and performance, we will provide network-on-chipinterconnect IP and system IP that will make HSA systems-on-chip moreefficient, minimizing power consumption and size for consumer electronics,mobile, automotive and otherapplications.”

· MulticoreWare - a leading softwaretool and library provider

“MulticoreWarehas been at the forefront of providing developer tools and libraries thatleverage heterogeneous computing,” said AGK Karunakaran, president and chiefexecutive officer of MulticoreWare. “As HSA takes hold as an industry standardand becomes the interface for parallel computing, we will provide the tools,libraries and support to semiconductor vendors with their HSA supported SDKsand developers at ISVs that want to optimize their applications for the nextera of computing performance.”

Contributor

· Apical - a leader in advanced imageprocessing technology

“We are living in a world of screens where visuals havebecome the preferred choice of how we communicate,” said Michael Tusch, chiefexecutive officer of Apical. As a new member of the HSA Foundation, we lookforward to leveraging heterogeneous computing to deliver advanced digitalimaging and display technologies that will improve the user experience.”

· Sonics - a leading supplier ofsystem IP for cloud-scale SoCs

“Technology companies are rushing todeliver products that satisfy the growing appetite for connected devices andcontent,” said Jack Browne, vice presidentof marketing at Sonics. “Ourbroad portfolio of system IP, which includes network, memory, power andsecurity subsystems, helps leading SoC vendors build better chips, faster andat lower cost. Sonics’ support of HSA will further accelerate SoC and OEMvendors’ time-to-market and put the next-generation of connected devices inconsumers’ hands sooner.”

· Symbio - a leading provider ofR&D innovation services and outsourced product development solutions

"Symbio believes HSA heterogeneous architecture is a gamechanger that will unbound the limitations of traditional processor and graphicsarchitectures,” said Jacob Hsu, chief executive officer of Symbio. “We’re justscratching at the surface of all the possibilities as performance of many ofthe algorithms and usage cases will be significantly improved."

Associate

· Vivante - a worldwide leader ingraphics and GPU Compute technologies for handheld, consumer and embeddeddevices

"Theheterogeneous computing revolution has taken a huge step forward with theformation of an open standard driven by HSA Foundation. As a global innovatorin graphics and GPU technologies, Vivante is excited to join the foundation asit defines a hybrid platform architecture that takes full advantage of themassively parallel processing cores in our GPUs," said Wei-Jin Dai,president and chief executive officer of Vivante. “We look forward tocollaborating with ecosystem partners as we bring exciting hybrid computinginitiatives to future mobile, consumer, and embedded devices.”

SupportingResources

· For additional information about HSAand the HSA Foundation visit the HSA Foundation web site at www.hsafoundation.com.

· Check out the latest whitepaperabout HSA here.

· Check out a video about the SurroundComputing Era here.

· Follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter:@HSAFoundation.

· “Like” the HSA Foundation onFacebook: www.facebook.com/HSAFoundation.

About the HSAFoundation

The HSA (Heterogeneous SystemArchitecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors,OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy toprogram for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computeecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on theCPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access tomemory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA definesinterfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmableand fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-levelprogramming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purposecomputing. Learn more about HSA and the HSA Foundation at www.hsafoundation.com.