Yahoo News reports that Intel has upgraded its
software development tools today, introducing support for Mac OS X Leopard as well as their new Penryn processors.
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The Intel Software Development Products for Mac OS X includes updated compilers and libraries for development environments like C, C++ and Fortran that optimize applications to take advantage of features in Intel's latest 64-bit multicore processors, said James Reinders, director of marketing for Intel's software development products division.
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The new tools can also take advantage of the new
SSE4 instruction set that debuted with the Penryn processors.
Intel first
announced the 45-nm Penryn processors on November 12th, 2007, with the first batch of Penryn processors focusing on the higher end server-class Xeon processors. Apple has been
rumored to be buying up the high end 3.2GHz Penryn Xeon processors which feature a faster 1600MHz bus and 12MB of L2 cache for an upcoming Mac Pro revision. Apple currently uses the previous generation Xeon Woodcrest (Quad core Macs) or Xeon Clovertown (8-core Macs) processors in their Mac Pros.
Mobile versions of the Penryn processor are not expected until January 2008.
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Nov 28, 2007, 05:03 PM
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