Two in the last few days
By Nick Farrell, 24 August 2009
WHEN EMPLOYEES at various tech companies come back from their summer holidays they could find that they are working for Chipzilla. Intel has been opening its chequebook in recent days and bought two software companies. Apparently it is desperate to get expertise in the development of applications that aim at multicore processors. It seems that Intel is just now waking up to what we told them years ago, that multicore processors are useless without software to take advantage of them. So far there is still too little software out there to do this. RapidMind and Cilk Arts have both been seduced to work under Chipzilla's banner. RapidMind has written a development platform that helps software developers target multicore processors. Cilk Arts also develops software for multicore computing. Both companies are small firms that employ less than 50 workers. The purchases follow Intel's buyout of WindRiver in June.
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