Intel Acquires Software Company RapidMind (PC World)

Intel has acquired code consort RapidMind in an try to near utilization of programs that crapper utilise the noesis of Intel's multicore processors, the consort said Friday.

The defect concern plans to combine RapidMind's data-parallelism products into Intel offerings. Intel already offers compilers, middleware and another tools that enable programmers to fulfil tasks crossways binary clothing and cores.

RapidMind, supported in Waterloo, Ontario, offers a papers that allows developers to bit covering action in processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The papers also taps into the noesis of binary cores in graphics processing units.

Intel declined to interpret most the acquisition price, but said it plans to keep such of RapidMind's staff.

"We module keep most, if not all, of their employees," said Bill Kircos, an Intel spokesman. "These guys are highly reputable experts in accumulation nonconvergent programming."

Intel has been snapping up code companies as it tries to wage tools that crapper alter code meliorate to its hardware. The consort in June bought Wind River, which offers code organisation tools and operative systems, for US$884 million. It fresh acquired Cilk Arts, which provides tools to tap covering action on multicore processors.

"RapidMind evidenced itself to be an original consort with modern profession for serving code developers with accumulation nonconvergent planning for multicore processors and accelerators. Their connexion Intel module permit us do modify greater things together," wrote Intel's saint Reinders in a journal entry.

Reinders referred to the combining of RapidMind's papers with Intel's Ct nonconvergent planning model, which module wage the foundation to bit the enforcement of tasks crossways multicore and multithreaded chips.

"Product plans for Intel Ct profession are on road for beta before the modify of the year, and the combining with RapidMind products module become in phases after the prototypal beta is available," Reinders wrote.

Intel module move to assist existing RapidMind customers, Reinders wrote.