In AMD's view, the new computer stack could include an expanded set of run-time environments above the operating system. They could help find, schedule, synchronize and manage chip-level resources for applications programmers. Below the operating system, virtualization software could be extended to better track and correct programming errors.
The moves are designed to tackle the growing need for a parallel programming model as the number and types of cores on a CPU rise.
"The industry is in a little bit of a panic about how to program multi-core processors, especially heterogeneous ones," said Moore. To make effective use of multi-core hardware today you need a PhD in computer science. That can't continue if we want to enable heterogeneous CPUs," he said.

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