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Reference? I cant find any evidence apple is shipping HSA devices.


As far as I understand, the A7 employs a shared memory architecture and Apple did not publicize this fact until the recent developer conference.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/06/16/inside-metal-how-a...


HSA's requirements are far broader than those provided in Metal. A7's shared memory implementation appears to be far too basic to be able to implement HSA-type API. For example, on-demand paging, user-mode queueing and ability for GPU to do CPU callbacks. Many systems can have shared memory but are not HSA compliant.




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