We're looking forward to the first handheld supercomputer, thanks to an Apple-developed technology the company is now working to see accepted as an open standard.
Apple announced Snow Leopard at WWDC last week, equipped with the technology - Open Computing Language (OpenCL) - that will allow the OS to use the processing power of graphics processors for non-graphics apps.
OpenCL is based on the C programming language and has been proposed as an open standard. As part of the standard-setting process, Apple has joined a consortium of companies (the Khronos Group) to develop OpenCL as a standard.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week told the New York Times a
