This article covers the creation of a new effort to make sure that software will be available as new, heterogeneous multicore designs are developed. Is this a response to the challenges of today? Most likely. ""The industry is in a little bit of a panic about how to program multicore processors, especially heterogeneous ones," said Chuck Moore, a senior fellow at AMD now serving as chief architect of the company's so-called accelerated computing initiative. "To make effective use of multicore hardware today, you need a PhD in computer science. That can't continue if we want to enable heterogeneous CPUs."