Intel Corp. last week rolled out the first major upgrade of its C++ and Fortran compilers in two years, adding new features to better exploit programming its X86 multicore processors. The compilers ...

Use gcc for user-facing Objective-C code, and use the tools of your choice for everything else. Intel makes it really easy to toggle back and forth between its tools and the platform’s native set.

Intel Compilers also help developers produce multi-threaded applications and use Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology, which enables processor execution of two streams of information at the same ...