Maybe you didn’t notice but AMD is now pushing the OpenCL standard. This is a really great news, the first step to a common GPGPU technology: who on Earth would want force himself to write the same program for three different architectures ?
I was almost going to miss this press release from the Khronos Group (the industrial group behind standards like OpenGL), looks like they are finally getting serious with general purpose computing on GPUs with the launch of a working group to create open standards for it. This group is going to include names like AMD, Apple, ARM, Freescale, IBM, Intel, Nokia, NVIDIA and many others so we can expect something really big coming out of it. Apple has already proposed OpenCL, maybe it won’t take so long before we can put our hands on a cross platform GPGPU tool.