Intel, Microsoft Pledge $20 Million For Multi-Core App Development
The Wintel juggernaut, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Tuesday announced that they'll again join forces and spend $20 million over the next five years on academic research aimed at pushing the envelope on parallel computing.
As Intel and other chipmakers embark on their multi-core journeys, they've tried as best they can to give software developers new ways of writing software to take advantage of the potential performance increases inherent in packing more processors into chips.
With that in mind, the two companies announced that they've committed $20 million to set up and fund new research facilities at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The two universities hope to add an additional $15 million to the effort from their own coffers.
