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List of Vendor Implementation Dates

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  • On 10 December 2008, AMD and Nvidia held the first public OpenCL demonstration, a 75-minute presentation at Siggraph Asia 2008. AMD showed a CPU-accelerated OpenCL demo explaining the scalability of OpenCL on one or more cores while Nvidia showed a GPU-accelerated demo.
  • On 16 March 2009, at the 4th Multicore Expo, Imagination Technologies announced the PowerVR SGX543MP, the first GPU of this company to feature OpenCL support.
  • On 26 March 2009, at GDC 2009, AMD and Havok demonstrated the first working implementation for OpenCL accelerating Havok Cloth on AMD Radeon HD 4000 series GPU.
  • On 20 April 2009, Nvidia announced the release of its OpenCL driver and SDK to developers participating in its OpenCL Early Access Program.
  • On 5 August 2009, AMD unveiled the first development tools for its OpenCL platform as part of its ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program.
  • On 28 August 2009, Apple released Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which contains a full implementation of OpenCL.
OpenCL in Snow Leopard is supported on the Nvidia GeForce 320M, GeForce GT 330M, GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600, ATI Radeon HD 4670, ATI Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD 4870, ATI Radeon HD 5670, ATI Radeon HD 5750, ATI Radeon HD 5770 and ATI Radeon HD 5870.
  • On 28 September 2009, Nvidia released its own OpenCL drivers and SDK implementation.
  • On 13 October 2009, AMD released the fourth beta of the ATI Stream SDK 2.0, which provides a complete OpenCL implementation on both R700/R800 GPUs and SSE3 capable CPUs. The SDK is available for both Linux and Windows.
  • On 26 November 2009, Nvidia released drivers for OpenCL 1.0 (rev 48).
The Apple, Nvidia, RapidMind and Gallium3D implementations of OpenCL are all based on the LLVM Compiler technology and use the Clang Compiler as its frontend.
  • On 27 October 2009, S3 released their first product supporting native OpenCL 1.0 - the Chrome 5400E embedded graphics processor.
  • On 10 December 2009, VIA released their first product supporting OpenCL 1.0 - ChromotionHD 2.0 video processor included in VN1000 chipset.
  • On 21 December 2009, AMD released the production version of the ATI Stream SDK 2.0, which provides OpenCL 1.0 support for R800 GPUs and beta support for R700 GPUs.
  • On 1 June 2010, ZiiLABS released details of their first OpenCL implementation for the ZMS processor for handheld, embedded and digital home products.
  • On 30 June 2010, IBM released a fully conformant version of OpenCL 1.0.
  • On 13 September 2010, Intel released details of their first OpenCL implementation for the Sandy Bridge chip architecture. Sandy Bridge will integrate Intel's newest graphics chip technology directly onto the central processing unit.
  • On 15 November 2010, Wolfram Research released Mathematica 8 with OpenCLLink package.
  • On 3 March 2011, Khronos Group announces the formation of the WebCL working group to explore defining a JavaScript binding to OpenCL. This creates the potential to harness GPU and multi-core CPU parallel processing from a Web browser.
  • On 31 March 2011, IBM released a fully conformant version of OpenCL 1.1.
  • On 25 April 2011, IBM released OpenCL Common Runtime v0.1 for Linux on x86 Architecture.
  • On 4 May 2011, Nokia Research releases an open source WebCL extension for the Firefox web browser, providing a JavaScript binding to OpenCL.
  • On 1 July 2011, Samsung Electronics releases an open source prototype implementation of WebCL for WebKit, providing a JavaScript binding to OpenCL.
  • On 8 August 2011, AMD released the OpenCL-driven AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.5, replacing the ATI Stream SDK as technology and concept.
  • On 12 December 2011, AMD released AMD APP SDK v2.6 which contains a preview of OpenCL 1.2.
  • On 27 February 2012, The Portland Group released the PGI OpenCL compiler for multi-core ARM CPUs.
  • On 17 April 2012 Khronos released a WebCL working draft.

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