Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specialises in making it easy for developers to optimise and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit like Apple’s GrandCentral technology built into Snow Leopard, actually. It’s an interesting move, since Intel already hires more software engineers than hardware dudes because of the difficulty of parallelism. [PC World]
AnthonyP
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 9:10 AMinteresting that Intel now has to invest into learning all about parallelism! Seeing they are one of the main causes for its original demise!
matt
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 9:33 AMApple’s GrandCentral technology is just making the obvious official, everyone uses the same type of design in their multicore apps for ages. the only thing special about GrandCentral is that its at the OS level, rather than the application level, which should make multiple multi core capable apps run well together at the same time.