Earlier this year, Intel made the decision to integrate OpenCL™ support into two software development suites: Intel® Integrated Native Developer Experience (Intel® INDE) and Intel® Media Server Studio. At the time, we decided to provide the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications under a new name: Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder. OpenCL support at Intel has long-been mainstream, so integrating Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder into Intel's tool suites for developers made sense.
Now Intel will no longer offer Intel® INDE. As a result, the Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder is going back to being a standalone SDK for Windows* and Android* development.
This standalone SDK is also going back to its original name: the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications, which properly reflects the product's intent.
Why did we go back? We provided the Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder component available in the Intel® INDE suite for developers deploying applications for Windows* and Android*. Since we no longer offer Intel® INDE, we needed another way for developers to download and access our OpenCL software tools, so they can continue to target Intel® processors with integrated Intel® Graphics Technology and build high-performance applications by utilizing the whole platform.
A standalone download, like we had before, just made sense. Driven by user feedback, we decided that a comprehensive tool set for developing applications was not needed for all OpenCL developers. Some just preferred the standalone OpenCL SDK.
Please note that the Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder will stay the same in the Intel® Media Server Studio suite. Developers using this suite will still be able to build, debug, and analyze OpenCL code, and deploy their applications on Windows* and Linux* systems, just as they always have. Please also note that current Intel® INDE users will still have the same Intel support available whenever they need it.
By having both the standalone SDK as well as the Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder available, we essentially create the best of both worlds:
- A free, easy-to-download SDK that contains headers, libraries, and tools to create, debug, and analyze your OpenCL™ applications.
- The Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder component available as a part of a comprehensive suite.
Both options provide the same capabilities and allow developers to optimize their application performance on Intel® processors with integrated Intel® Graphics Technology. And both options will continue to have the best support Intel always strives to provide.
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