Intel Corp. has given software developers an early Christmas present with the release of its oneAPI 2022 toolkits today.

The new toolkits feature expanded cross-architecture features with several open-source software components. The oneAPI toolkits are meant to help developers experiment with different kinds of computer chips to optimize their application’s performance.

With the toolkits, developers can play around and find out what is the best hardware for each app without worrying about the economic burden of proprietary programming models. In other words, developers can simply use the oneAPI toolkit instead of investing in all of the different chip hardware they want to experiment with.

Today’s update, which is tagged 2021.4, is the fourth release of Intel’s oneAPI tools. Intel said today’s release contains multiple application programming interfaces it has purpose built for developers. The APIs help developers extract the best performance from Intel’s central processing units, graphics processing units and other hardware. Intel said today’s release already supports upcoming CPUs such as its new Xeon Sapphire Rapids, which will launch in 2022.

The Intel oneAPI 2022 also updates the LLVM-based components. The company has also included its latest work on GPU/XPU offloading, a new Intel extension for SciKit-Learn, the Intel Neural Compressor, and more.

“New capabilities include the world’s first unified compiler implementing C++, SYCL and Fortran, data parallel Python for CPUs and GPUs, advanced accelerator performance modeling and tuning, and performance acceleration for AI and ray tracing visualization workloads,” Intel added.

The company explained that developers should be able to accelerate deep learning framework performance by up to 10 times, while speeding up machine learning algorithms by more than 100 times on Intel CPUs.

Intel reckons the oneAPI platform will find an appreciative audience, as it says more than 40% of the world’s developers target heterogeneous systems that use more than one kind of processor.

Developers can download the 2022 Intel oneAPI toolkit now, or alternatively access it free through the Intel DevCloud.

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