The new Heterogeneous Unified Memory Architecture (or hUMA) is part of AMD’s HSA feature set and will make its way into the Kaveri APUs.  It is supposed to provide a unified memory address space for both the CPU and GPU, potentially increasing throughput by leveraging both processors in parallel.

At the AMD Fusion Developers Conference in Bellevue on Tuesday some of the world’s top semiconductor companies announced the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation, a consortium with the goal of defining and promoting an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing. AMD first announced an HSA strategy in February to develop an SDK [...]