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Intel adds Wireless MMX support to XScale tools

Paving way for Bulverde

Intel is clearly gearing up to announce - and hopefully ship - its next-generation XScale processor, codenamed "Bulverde".

The part may have failed to warrant a mention during the appropriate Intel Developer Forum keynote last week, but today the chip giant began shipping the software tools needed to write applications and drivers. that will support the new chip.

The Intel C++ Software Development Tool Suite supports app development for Palm OS 5 and Symbian-based devices, along with support for the Nucleus OS 1.13.

Central to the $2999 suite is Intel's C++ Compiler for PCA Processors 1.2, which adds support for Wireless MMX, Bulverde's new multimedia manipulation instructions. Based on the Pentium processor's MMX instructions, Wireless MMX extends the ARM ISA on which XScale CPUs are based.

The compiler itself is based on the technology Intel offers to developers coding for its desktop processors, including the Pentium 4 and Xeon chips. Optimisations developed for the other processors are applied to XScale code, Intel said, highlighting "support for interprocedural optimisation, which can speed application performance". ®

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