The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation and the China Semiconductor Industry Association held the 2016 HSA Global Summit with the support of GPT, AMD, MediaTek, Imagination Technologies and LG in E-Town, Beijing, on August 22.

The next generation processor summit was the first held in China, and many officers and experts from the Internet Information Office and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology attended the opening ceremony.

At the ceremony, representatives of foreign companies, such as Cadence, Synopsys and Ceva, and of local internet organizations, including Fudan University, Sun Yat-Sen University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, gave speeches and reports on machine vision, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, virtual reality and software radio.

CPU has always been the essence of the electronic information industry. With the development of cloud computing, big data and Internet of things technology, scientists have succeeded in combining CPU with GPU, DSP, FPGA and developed HSA technology.

The HSA Foundation, a non-profit organization representing more than 40 companies and 17 universities, has been devoting itself to setting complete HSA standards and improving HSA technology. According to its chairman John Glossner, CPU+, a new generation of CPU, has greatly improved functionality beyond the traditional level and supports longer working times. What is more important is that CPU+ will help decrease manufacturers' research time and costs and related products will more readily be available for the electronic information industry.

Experts from GPT, a heterogeneous multi-core processor IP supplier with globally advanced technology and independent intellectual property rights in HSA, also said that it has built a CPU+ technology system that meets HSA international standards and that it plans to release a more complete CPU+ solution.

E-Town has now attracted more than 20 integrated electronic companies and built an industry chain of manufacturing, testing, equipment, materials and design. In 2015 it earned revenue of 13.3 billion yuan and began playing a leading role in the industry.

The summit in E-Town will help systematize international software and hardware and hasten the birth of a new processor standard in China. It appears that a new period of CPU+ in China is emerging.