Intel acquires ArrayFire GPU team to strengthen oneAPI business

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 10 (Xinhua)-- in addition to acquiring Linutronix, a company known for its real-time (RT) kernel patches and other contributions, and Codeplay Software in June, Intel today acquired another development team, ArrayFire, to further advance their ambitious software business.

ArrayFire is designed to provide a variety of parallel computing and GPU computing software, including C / C++ / Fortran to provide GPGPU extensions that can execute commands across various accelerators from multiple vendors as well as CPU-based commands.

ArrayFire has already received some funding from DARPA. It is reported that it has been used by a variety of defense industry customers. ArrayFire has been an open source library for more than 5 years, and they also provide OpenCL and NVIDIA CUDA consulting services.

Intel acquired Codeplay this summer to strengthen their work on oneAPI, given the company's work on SYCL computing, oneAPI's support for NVIDIA and AMD. Intel's acquisition of the ArrayFire software team followed a similar path and further strengthened the oneAPI ecosystem.

Intel announced that the ArrayFire team has joined Intel to focus exclusively on oneAPI:

At ArrayFire, the team pioneered an efficient way to accelerate computing. They created the ArrayFire library, which contains fast, easy-to-use mathematical routines that rely on a clever runtime to optimize the underlying performance details through clever JIT compilation of kernel code and intelligent memory management.

Because oneAPI is a fundamental effort to accelerate open computing, multi-vendor, and multi-architecture; the team immediately knew that we were like-minded.

With their groundbreaking record and demonstrated skills in bringing open solutions to accelerated computing, we are all pleased to have the opportunity to work together to help everyone achieve open accelerated computing.

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The Intel team is now building an oneAPI backend that allows library users to migrate to oneAPI. This exciting work will further advance our vision for open accelerated technology computing.