on day 2 of intel innovation the chip giant illustrated its efforts and investments to foster an open ecosystem catalyze community innovation from silicon to systems to apps and across all levels of the software stackintel introduced new tools to support developers in artificial intelligence security and quantum computing and announced the first customers of its new project amber attestation service we are making good on our softwarefirst strategy by empowering an open ecosystem that will enable us to collectively and continuously innovate said intel chief technology officer greg lavender we are committed members of the developer community and our breadth and depth of hardware and software assets facilitate the scaling of opportunities for all through coinnovation and collaborationin his keynote lavender emphasized intels commitment to openness choice and trust beginning with oneapi a crossindustry open standardsbased programming model that allows developers to choose the best architecture for the specific problem they are trying to solve building on oneapi adoption and implementation progress the initiative is shifting to a community forum to shape the future direction of oneapi and address the evolving needs of developers software vendors national labs researchers and silicon vendors codeplay an intel subsidiary providing crossplatform implementations of sycl and oneapi tools will now assume responsibility for the oneapi development communitythe intel oneapi 2023 toolkits will ship in december with support for the latest and upcoming new cpu gpu and fpga architectures and include tools like the open source syclomatic compatibility tool syclomatic assists converting cuda source code to sycl source code thus giving developers choice in computing architecturesintel also announced six more education and research institutions that have formed oneapi centers of excellence to expand oneapi support in important applications and extend oneapi educational curriculum development the new coes include school of software and microelectronics of peking university science and technology facilities council in the uk technion israel institute of technology university of utah in collaboration with lawrence livermore national laboratory llnl university of california san diego and the zuse institute berlinfor developers looking to build new ai solutions in a fast efficient and industryspecific manner intel released three new ai reference kits for healthcare document automation disease prediction and medical imaging diagnostics developers can find them on github alongside the four kits released in julyour goal is to make it easy for developers to get the best software technology through the open source ecosystem or as inteldelivered products lavender said and though they may not realize it some 90 of developers are using software developed or optimized by intel according to a global development survey conducted by evans data corp in 2021 among many examples intel has been a top contributor to the linux kernel for over a decade and recently helped integrate the onednn performance library to tensorflow automatically bringing up to a 3x performance improvement to the millions that use the popular ai frameworklavender also detailed progress toward postquantum cryptography a part of intels threephased approach to address threats posed by quantum computers