Convey Computer Corporation is a privately owned company, established in December 2006 and is based in Richardson, Texas

Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...

. Convey has developed a specific form of heterogeneous computing

Heterogeneous computing

Heterogeneous computing systems refer to electronic systems that use a variety of different types of computational units. A computational unit could be a general-purpose processor , a special-purpose processor Heterogeneous computing systems refer to electronic systems that use a variety of...

 they call hybrid-core computing

Hybrid-core computing

Hybrid-core computing is the technique of extending a commodity instruction set architecture with application-specific instructions to accelerate application performance...

. According to Convey, their systems "combine the low cost and simple programming model of a commodity system with the performance of an application-specific hardware architecture."