"Combining these capabilities in a cooperative and coordinated manner brings our customers added performance benefits and compiler reliability, which in turn gives greater PC responsiveness for gamers and everyday PC users," said Kevin J. Smith, director of the Intel Compiler Products. "This project has undergone extensive validation and application testing with Intel customers and we're excited about the results our customers are seeing in their applications."
The combined capabilities also provide benefits that extend beyond multi-core optimizations by assisting developers in locating vulnerabilities that would otherwise go undetected, such as uninitialized variables and possible buffer overruns.
The Intel® C++ Professional Edition for Windows*, Linux* and Mac OS* X combines the Intel compiler with the Intel® Math Kernel Library, the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives and the Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
The Intel Fortran Compiler Professional Edition for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X combines the Intel compiler with the Intel Math Kernel Library. For the first time, the Intel® Visual Fortran Compiler 10.0 now includes Microsoft Visual Studio, which provides the visual development environment to create, edit, build and debug Fortran applications.
The new products are all available today with suggested prices ranging from $599 to $1,599. Upgrades to the Professional Editions from the prior version of Intel compilers or libraries are available for limited time through resellers worldwide.
Intel also announced a new package for students that include all of these products as well as Intel® VTune Performance Analyzer, Intel® Thread Checker and Intel® Thread Profiler in one discounted package for students who qualify.

New Intel Products Simplify and Speed Software Development for Multi-Core Processors.

Intel Corporation today announced the availability of two software products that help developers efficiently create more reliable, high-performing applications that speed up a computer's responsiveness. The Intel® C++ Compiler and Fortran Professional Editions bring together a unique combination of highly optimizing compilers, performance libraries and the Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
The products feature new automatic support for accelerating program performance on Intel's latest multi-core processors. Applications containing 3-D graphics or video are automatically accelerated through the use of vectors via Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE), including the latest SSE 4 instructions. Application performance is also accelerated by multi-core processors through the use of multiple threads. Combining the use of vectors and threads and integrating them with a technology known as loop transformation generates greater performance on multi-core processors without requiring developers to rewrite their code.

Intel Core 2 Duo ProcessorFor Desktop ComputersEnter the performance-packed and energy-efficient world of HD entertainment.
Get amazing responsiveness for gaming or running complex applications with the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor. Load large files faster and run multiple applications simultaneously—all while enjoying your entertainment without lag time.

The next digital frontier The stakes are high in the market for electronic devices, but the opportunity is massive.
Consider: Intel sold its 1 billionth x86 chip in 2003. Its closest rival, AMD, broke the 500 million mark just this year. ARM, on the other hand, expects to ship 2.8 billion processors in 2009 alone -- or around 90 chips per second. That's in addition to the more than 10 billion ARM processors already powering devices today.
Pick up any mobile phone and there's a 95 percent chance it contains at least one ARM processor. If the phone was manufactured in the past five years, make that 100 percent; that goes for standard handsets as well as smartphones.
The same is true for portable media players. Whether the label says Archos, iRiver, or Sony, inside it's ARM.

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Key to this vision is Atom, the most recent entry in Intel's processor line. Compact and extremely energy-efficient, Atom is already the leading CPU for netbook computers. With its latest, ultra-low-voltage versions of the chip, Intel is poised to take x86 even further down Otellini's continuum, away from PCs and into the world of handsets, media players, smart TVs, and other digital electronic devices.
It won't be easy. Intel may be the reigning king of PCs and server CPUs, but in the world of mobile devices, that title goes to an unlikely rival: a small, unassuming company called ARM Holdings, based in Cambridge, England.
Most consumers have never even heard of ARM. You won't see ARM ad campaigns in magazines or on TV. There are no stickers proclaiming "ARM Inside!" The company employs fewer than 1,800 people, and at $3 billion, its market capitalization is a mere fraction of Intel's. But make no mistake -- ARM and Intel are on a collision course. What happens next could determine the shape of the computing industry for years to come.

Over the past 25 years, Intel has risen to become the leading supplier of microprocessors for home and business computing, commanding a virtual monopoly in the market for desktop, laptop, and server CPUs. Even Apple has joined the choir.
But CEO Paul Otellini isn't content to stop there. He envisions a world in which Intel chips power every device, from the grandest server to the humblest media appliance -- a "continuum of computing" that spans many tiers of processor power, all united by Intel's x86 architecture.

Larrabee Microarchitecture

Intel has developed a new Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Larrabee, to meet the increasing compute and memory intensive demands of the latest PC games and high-performance computing applications, such as image processing, physical simulation, and medical and financial analytics.
The new flexible standard

As parallelism and advances in multi-core processing bring new levels of performance and application capabilities, Larrabee architecture's programmability creates new opportunities for developers to innovate in the visual computing realm. Designed to provide unprecedented freedom for developers, the Larrabee microarchitecture features a number of hardware advances, including a many-core throughput design for a wide range of highly parallel visual computing applications, including graphics, media, and medical imaging and financial services.
The enabling factor for each of these core elements is programmability. Platforms built around the Larrabee microarchitecture will operate across a unified infrastructure that includes other components based on Intel® architecture programmable cores.

Unlocking visual computing with the Larrabee microarchitectureLarrabee:

A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing File Type/Size: PDF 2.10MB
Read this paper to discover the performance analysis performed on the Larrabee microarchitecture, demonstrating its potential for a broad range of parallel computation.
Game Physics Performance on the Larrabee Architecture File Type/Size: PDF 517KB
Examine several simulation models used to compute various types of physical simulation in modern games using the Larrabee microarchitecture to achieve increased game physics workloads and more efficient processing.