[January 07, 2008]

RapidMind Announces Multi-core Development Platform Support for Mac OS X

WATERLOO, Ontario --(Business Wire)-- RapidMind Inc. today announced that its flagship product, the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, now supports the Mac platform. RapidMind's software solution allows companies to take advantage of the unparalleled performance gains offered by the families of Intel(R) Xeon CPUs.

Today, RapidMind is leveraged in applications such as three-dimensional visualization, image processing, video editing, and broadcast-quality encoding. The tremendous computational and graphics power contained in the new Intel Xeon-based Macs offers the digital media industry unparalleled performance. RapidMind's Multi-core Development Platform has been shown to achieve a 10x performance improvement on third-party Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) effects, providing desktop publishing and photo and video editing software vendors with a significant competitive advantage. RapidMind's support for Mac OS acknowledges Apple's leadership position in these markets, and ensures Mac users will continue to experience gains in the revolutionary applications that they use to share photos, create movies, or produce broadcast video.

As processor vendors continue to add cores to boost performance, application developers are experiencing significant challenges due to the complexity involved in parallelizing across multiple cores. Rather than launching into complex and time-consuming multi-threading projects, over a thousand software developers are using RapidMind to realize the performance benefits of new multi-core processors.

"Mac users are accustomed to applications that simply work and offer unprecedented performance," said Ray DePaul, president and CEO of RapidMind. "RapidMind's support for the Mac ensures software organizations will continue to provide their customers with eye-popping applications they expect."

RapidMind will demonstrate the RapidMind platform at Macworld Expo, booth 4354 in the Moscone West Hall, January 15-18 in San Francisco.

Product availability and supported platforms

Available now, the RapidMind Platform offers Mac OS(R), Windows(R) and Linux(R) support for multi-core CPUs from AMD and Intel. Please visit http://www.rapidmind.com for the full list of supported hardware and operating systems.

About RapidMind

RapidMind provides the award-winning RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform that simplifies the development of parallel applications, minimizing the impact on traditional lifecycle costs and timelines. Developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind today to create manageable, single-threaded applications that leverage the full potential of multi-core processors from AMD(R) and Intel(R) and to seamlessly take advantage of the application acceleration available from GPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine(TM). For more information on RapidMind, visit http://www.rapidmind.com.

RapidMind and the RapidMind logo are trademarks of RapidMind Inc. Adobe and Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. ATI Radeon and AMD are registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Cell Broadband Engine is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. NVIDIA, NVIDIA Quadro and GeForce are registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

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