INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 20, 2003 -- Intel Corporation is helping software developers create applications for Intel processor-based desktop, server, mobile and handheld platforms with a new version of its Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP). Intel IPP delivers a library of high-performance software functions and a common application programming interface (API) to enhance the performance and compatibility of applications across multiple Intel-based platforms.

Software libraries allow developers to easily build features, such as audio, video, image, signal and speech processing into an application. Since the Intel IPP library is a cross-architecture library with a common API, those features will work across multiple Intel processor-based platforms without having to re-write the application source code for those features. This reduces development cost and time-to-market and delivers exceptional performance on each platform.

“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.

“Intel IPP 3.0 adds new function domains for speech and video, as well as source code examples to help developers offer the best experience on platforms based on the Intel® XScale™ technology or Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel® Xeon™ and Intel® Itanium® 2 processors.”

All applications contain basic functions that provide the ability to process multimedia or numeric data. Intel IPP helps speed up the time it takes to develop new applications by delivering over 26 samples of pre-generated code for common software capabilities, such as speech, image, audio, video graphic and numeric processing. The software library also contains small matrix and vector math functions with the latest optimizations for Intel processors.

“With Intel IPP3.0, our team has seen speed enhancements on our products,” said Vito Salvaggio, vice president of product management, Roxio, Inc. “A pivotal focus for us is increasing application performance, which is especially important to improve the consumer experience for compute intensive applications like video. Intel continues to pave the way with Intel IPP 3.0, giving companies and developers like Roxio the enhanced ability to deliver more powerful digital media solutions to their customers.”

The extensive variety of samples for the Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon and Intel Itanium 2 processors include decoders and/or encoders for audio (MP3, AAC), video (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4), image (JPEG, JPEG Viewer, IJG, JPEG-2000), speech (G.723.1, G.729, Aurora, Gaussian mixture methods) and threading (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3). For processors based on the Intel XScale technology, new features provide a variety of function additions for video and audio (MPEG-4, AAC, MP3, JPEG-2000) and other audio processing functions. More information is available at http://www.intel.com/software/products/perflib/.

The Intel IPP 3.0 is optimized for the Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, Intel Itanium 2 processors and processors based on Intel XScale technology, including the Intel® PXA250 and Intel® PXA262 application processors. The library supports the Microsoft* Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, WindowsCE, and Microsoft PocketPC operating systems and versions of the Linux* operating system.


Pricing and Availability

The Intel IPP 3.0 is offered for the suggested list price of $199 each or $155 in quantities of ten. The version for the Intel Pentium, Intel Xeon and Intel Itanium 2 processors is available today via download from the Intel Web site at http://www.intel.com/software/products or through resellers. The Intel IPP 3.0 for the Intel PCA processor is available today in beta with final release scheduled for later this quarter.



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