Intel Gears Software Developers Up for Windows 8

Microsoft Windows 8 general availability, Intel has updated two tool kits for application developers - Intel Media S|D|K 2012 R3 and Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2013 Beta. In addition to Windows 8, Intel Media S|D|K also supports DirectX 11 with optimized access to hardware accelerated video encoding, decoding and transcoding for applications on Third Generation Intel Core processors.

 The Intel S|D|K for OpenCL Applications Beta now supports OpenCL 1.2 API previews on CPU and other features such as a new kernel builder and GNU project debugger, which ease the creation of parallel and visual computing apps. Both kits support the new Intel HD Graphics Driver for Windows 8 and are available now as free downloads.