Intel Developer Forum to host two Apple sessions

Intel Corp. has announced that it will host two Apple-focused sessions as part of its fall Intel Developer Forum next week.

The move comes just one day after AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz asserted that Apple would eventually become one of its customers in order to offer consumers a choice in the microprocessors that come inside their Macs.

At a dinner speech in California, Ruiz charged Intel with stifling the PC industry's growth and holding its partners "hostage" in the processes.

InfoWorld, which was first to point out the new Apple developer sessions, said it sees the move as a long overdue endorsement of the Mac maker by Intel.

According to Intel's developer site, Simon Patience, a VP of Core OS Software Engineering at Apple, will host a session titled "Mac OS X Overview: Performance OS for a Performance Processor."

"Mac OS X is designed from its BSD roots to its industry-leading UI to take full advantage of the features that Intel Core microarchitecture provides," reads the session description. "Learn how Mac OS X uses symmetric multiprocessing, multi-core threading, 64 bit memory spaces, power management, and other Intel Core microarchitecture enhancements to build a rock-solid, high performance foundation for the most innovative applications in computing."

Meanwhile, JohnÂ Gelensye, Apple's Software Technology Evangelism lead, will present a session titled "Creating Applications on Mac OS X: Power at Your Fingertips."

During this session, developers can "learn from Apple pros how to create and manage projects in Xcode, Apples comprehensive IDE, including using the Intel C++ Compiler for Mac OS and Intel Fortran Compiler for Mac OS."

The fall Intel Developer Forum will run September 26-28 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, Calif.

12 Comments

lundy 3603 comments · 23 Years

About 18 years ago

But the big question remains -- is intel adding Objective-C to their compiler? C++ won't cut it for compiling OS X itself, any of the iApps, or most of the newer apps.

If we could get the Intel compiler to process Objective-C code, then according to conventional wisdom which says the Intel compiler generates kickass x86 code including very good auto-vectorization, that would be a great thing.

macfandave 603 comments · 20 Years

Quote:

Intel Fortran Compiler for Mac OS

Great! Now I'll be able to run my programs on alchemy, the geocentric universe and phlogiston dynamics!

Now here's a message:

Code:




  [intel               add:objectiveC

                           or: prepareToFace

          consequences: [NSArray arrayWithObjects: irrelevancy, failure, doom, nil]];

chevaliermalfet 467 comments · 21 Years

Since when has the PC industry needed anyone to help it stifle its own growth?

franksargent 4679 comments · 20 Years

[alloc init] 38 comments · 18 Years

Originally Posted by franksargentFor me the Fortran compiler is the really interesting part, I've been using Intel's compiler for 23 years now! Actually Intel bought the HP/Compaq/DEC Visual Fortran (2004, I believe), prior to that it was a VAX Fortran compiler, coded on microVAX'es (which came just after the PDP11) for about 10 years. I've used Visual Fortran for the past 10 years (or so). I have a copy of Intel's XP Visual Fortran, but haven't had an urgent need to use it YET!

Oh wow, Intel's Fortran compiler is VAX Fortran? I think I have the docs for that. I know I have the RSX-11M Fortran docs.