Sunday, August 23, 2009

Intel Buys RapidMind, a Company That Makes Multicore Parallel Programming Easier [Intel]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FqmWUbSgap0/intel-buys-rapidmind-a-company-that-makes-multicore-parallel-programming-easier

Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specializes in making it easy for developers to optimize 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]