Intel launches open-source project

Intel launched its first official open-source software project today, a tool that makes it much easier to program multi-core chips working together.

"We did it because our customers said, `If it's going to be a standard, it needs to be everywhere and it needs to be forever,"' said James Reinders, chief evangelist for Intel's software development products, at the O'Reily Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore.

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