ylai@lemmy.ml to AMD@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoAMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Sourcewww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11
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minus-squareWahots@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·8 months agoProbably not ‘Huge Instant Penis’, but we can never be sure since AMD nor this article explained or marketed it at all, haha.
minus-squarekryllic@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoHIP in HIP ray tracing stands for Heterogeneous Interface for Portability. It’s a bit like a translator that helps different computer parts speak the same language
So… what’s HIP mean in this context?
Probably not ‘Huge Instant Penis’, but we can never be sure since AMD nor this article explained or marketed it at all, haha.
HIP in HIP ray tracing stands for Heterogeneous Interface for Portability. It’s a bit like a translator that helps different computer parts speak the same language