A few weeks back, we attended a summit hosted by AMD's Radeon Technologies Group. A number of new initiatives and technologies were disclosed at the event, including AMD's plans to support FreeSync over HDMI and other new display technologies, and the company's GPUOpen initiative, which is meant to give developers of games, heterogeneous computing applications, and HPC applications deeper access to the GPU and GPU resources through new open-source tools.

Today, as we prepare for the craziness of the Consumer Electronics Show, we can reveal the final major disclosure from the summit ? details of the AMD Radeon Technologies Group's next-generation GPU architecture, code-named Polaris...