Intel approached AMD to access Mantle

[son of spanner]

You need to remember that AMD is championing open standards at the minute.

Examples being;

1. their hate for Gameworks without open access to source code
2. Their work on OpenCL
3. Adaptive Sync and Dockport within the Displayport standard

For mantle to suceed, AMD need to get adoption, the easiest way to do that is to make it open and free.

thanks for the example

maybe I misread or didn't see what's there as I was thinking it was going to become part of amd catalyst software

 

[vorticalbox]

To be honest, I dont think AMD is intending to directly make money from this, as before I think it is more of something to help boost their sales of processors and giving their processors the much needed ability to be able to compete with intel, even if it is just on some fronts.

never thought of it like that, seeing as libary office (the opens ource one i forget its name) support mantle making spreadsheets super fast.

 

[barnsley]

never thought of it like that, seeing as libary office (the opens ource one i forget its name) support mantle making spreadsheets super fast.

Libre?

 

[vorticalbox]

Libre?

that's the one, if you have a massive spreadsheet say for comanpany shares and updating one number changes a lot you can save a lot of time with mantle.

mantle isn't all about gaming so intel my be looking into support for there cores and not just their graphics