Open CL 1.0 Certified and Soon Supported by ATI/AMD and NVidia

Open CL, the new technology launched and already adopted by Apple for Snow Leopard in order to better benefit from GPU computing power, has been certified in its version 1.0 Details specification are available from Khronos website.
The goal is also to help developers to get the most out of computer without having to worry about hardware environment (number of Core CPU, or graphic cards, etc.) as the optimization is directly managed by the API.
Freshly announced, Open CL 1.0 version has already been the subject of PR sent by ATI/AMD and NVidia. Both companies wanted to quickly inform OEM that they will adopt Open CL and support it:
- AMD will soon release to developers an Open CL SDK for new and past ATI graphic cards
- NVidia on its side considers Open CL as a real opportunity and will be supported in all their products.
If Microsoft does not compete and force developers to adopt its own set of API (a new version of DirectX?) as it did in the past with Open GL, the new Open CL might be a revolution in programming and optimizing applications for modern computers