Intel has announced new software development tools and resources through its Intel Software Network. These tools and resources are designed to help Apple developers take advantage of Intel’s Core Duo processor technologies to maximize application performance on the new Intel-based Mac platforms.

The special beta versions of the Intel Fortran Compiler, Intel C++ Compiler, Intel Math Kernel Library and Intel Integrated Performance Primitives are available now. Intel will also provide other resources to assist with software optimisation, dual core threading and migration information. More information on these programs is available at www.intel.com/software/apple.

The highly optimised compilers and libraries promise significant performance advantages for applications and take advantage of the opportunities made available through multi-core and multi-threaded environments, says Intel. The performance hike should be ideal for high performance scientific and creative customers need to squeeze every last drop of performance out of their systems.

The development tools are integrated into Apple’s Xcode development environment and offer an alternative to existing tools and compilers. The Intel Fortran compiler enables the scientific and technical community to bring the fastest versions of their applications to Mac OS X and Intel–based Mac platforms using industry-standard math libraries and language.

The Intel C++ Compiler provides the ability for Xcode users to apply targeted optimisations to performance–sensitive areas of their applications, allowing them to get the most out of the Intel Core Duo processor.

Intel augments these compilers with advanced support for threading through OpenMP and auto-parallelism capabilities. The Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) is a set of highly optimised mathematical routines designed for engineering, science, and financial applications that require maximum performance on Intel processors. The Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is a software library of optimised functions for multimedia, audio, video, speech, computer vision, image and signal processing.

Based on Intel’s proven suite of software development products for other platforms, each product has been transitioned to Mac OS X’s Xcode development environment to ensure complete fidelity with other Intel platforms, giving Mac OS X developers a familiar base to use Intel’s powerful development tools. The suite of development tools from Intel will be available for purchase in the second quarter of 2006, and are now available for free trial in the special beta program.

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