One concerned the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation, initial founders of which include AMD, ARM Holdings, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments (TI).

FORBES: AMD Woos Developers With Promises Of Efficiency

Assuming that these new books are right (not a fully warranted assumption), and that many students are increasingly disengaged from the academic part of the college experience, it may be because the system has become too big and too heterogeneous to work equally well for all who are in it.

NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

The follow-on to "Richland" will be the 28nm APU codenamed "Kaveri" with revolutionary heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) features which is expected to begin shipping to customers in the second half of 2013.

ENGADGET: AMD announces Temash, Kabini, Richland, and Kaveri APUs at CES 2013 (video)

The system will be made up of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots.

FORBES: The Swarmanoid Is An Effective Large Robot Swarm