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Open source HSA has arrived for the Linux kernel with a newly released set of patches which will allow Sea Islands and newer GPUs to share hardware resources. These patches are both for a sample driver for any HSA-compatible hardware and the river for Radeon GPUs. As the debut of the Linux 3.16 kernel is so close you shouldn't expect to see these patches included until 3.17 which should be released in the not too distant future. Phoronix and Linux users everywhere give a big shout of thanks to AMD's John Bridgman for his work on this project.

Quick highlights:

• AMD's overall unit shipments increased 11% quarter-to-quarter, Intel's total shipments increased 4% from last quarter, and Nvidia's decreased 8.3%.
• The attach rate of GPUs (includes integrated and discrete GPUs) to PCs, for the quarter was 139% (up 3.2%) and 32% of PCs had discrete GPUs, (down 3.6%) which mean 68% of the PCs are using the embedded graphics in the CPU.
• The overall PC market increased 1.3% quarter-to-quarter, and decreased 1.7% year-to-year.
• Desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs) that use discrete GPUs declined 17.5%.

With its new graphics architecture Pirate Islands to debut, presumably for some time that AMD should be working on his successors, which to the new information that comes from SemiAccurate code name will Faraway Islands (FI).

Even the architectural changes that incorporate these GPUs are unknown, which we assume will be the second generation of GPUs compatible with the graph API Microsoft DiretX 12 will have a performance per watt than Pirate Islands and be made with the manufacturing process to 20nm TSMC and GlobalFoundries."

Faraway Islands will also be integrated in future AMD APUs based on future x86 micro-architecture of high performance and future SoC-based low-power micro-architecture its successor Cheetah products that make their appearance in late 2015 and early of 2016."