By Stacey Higginbotham, Posted on Gigaom
AMD, ARM, Texas Instruments and two smaller chip firms have teamed up to create a nonprofit that will try to unseat Intel’s x86 dominance in computing. They have formed the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation, which will standardize a single architecture for low-power computing as well as simplify the parallel-programming model used with multicore graphics processors and other systems on a chip.

So how many chip makers does it take to unseat Intel? So far this consortium counts five including MediaTek (one of the largest wireless chip makers after Qualcomm) and Imagination Technologies. Notable absentees are Qualcomm and Nvidia, although John Taylor, the director of Product Marketing for AMD, says the consortium is reaching out to those companies as well. The consortium aims to offer standardized boards for the server, mobile and embedded markets, and it has a definite focus on graphics processing units, or GPUs.

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