Write once, Intel everywhere

By Alun Williams

Posted on 21 Feb 2003 at 12:26

Described by Intel as a 'cross-architecture library', the chip giant has updated its Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) to version 3.0. The release features new support for speech and video processing.

The idea is to provide a common set of APIs (application programming interface) to make applications more compatible across a range of Intel platforms. These include systems based on the Intel XScale technology or Pentium 4, Intel Xeon and Itanium 2 processors.

'Our goal is to make Intel processors the port of choice by enabling developers to write code once for optimal performance and eliminate the need for re-writes as new Intel processors are introduced,' said Jonathan Khazam, general manager, Intel Software Products Division.

Included with the software library are 26 samples of pre-generated code for speech, image, video and numeric processing. It also contains matrix and vector math functions, optimised for Intel processors.

You can find more info on the Intel IPP at intel.com/software/products/perflib/.