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Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is an extensive library of ready-to-use, domain-specific functions that are highly optimized for diverse Intel architectures. Its royalty-free APIs help developers take advantage of

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(SIMD) instructions. The library supports Intel and compatible processors and is available for

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and

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. It is available separately or as a part o
Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit
Intel IPP releases use a

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scheme, so that even though the major version looks like a year (YYYY), it is not technically meant to be a year. So it might not change every calendar year.

Features

The library takes advantage of processor features including MMX, SSE,

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SSSE3 Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3 or SSE3S) is a SIMD instruction set created by Intel and is the fourth iteration of the SSE technology. History SSSE3 was first introduced with Intel processors based on the Core microarchitect ...

SSE4 SSE4 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 4) is a SIMD CPU instruction set used in the Intel Core microarchitecture and AMD K10 (K8L). It was announced on September 27, 2006, at the Fall 2006 Intel Developer Forum, with vague details in a white paper;< ...

, AVX,

AVX2 Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX, also known as Gesher New Instructions and then Sandy Bridge New Instructions) are SIMD extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture for microprocessors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). They w ...

AVX-512 AVX-512 are 512-bit extensions to the 256-bit Advanced Vector Extensions SIMD instructions for x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) proposed by Intel in July 2013, and first implemented in the 2016 Intel Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing), and then ...

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, Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX) and

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s. Intel IPP includes functions for: * Video decode/encode * Audio decode/encode *

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Data compression In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compressi ...

* Image color conversion *

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* Ray tracing and rendering *

Signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, Scalar potential, potential fields, Seismic tomograph ...

Speech coding Speech coding is an application of data compression to digital audio signals containing speech. Speech coding uses speech-specific parameter estimation using audio signal processing techniques to model the speech signal, combined with generic da ...

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* String processing * Vector and matrix mathematics With launch of the Intel Cryptography Primitives Library in October 2024, the cryptography domain API has been split off and moved into the new library.

Organization

Intel IPP is divided into three major processing groups: signal processing (with linear array or vector data), image processing (with 2D arrays for typical color spaces) and data compression. Half the entry points are of the matrix type, a third are of the signal type, and the remainder are of the image types. Intel IPP functions are divided into 4 data types: data types include 8u (8-bit unsigned), 8s (8-bit signed), 16s, 32f (32-bit floating-point), 64f, etc. Typically, an application developer works with only one dominant data type for most processing functions, converting between input to processing to output formats at the end points.

History

* Version 2.0 files are dated April 22, 2002. * Version 3.0 * Version 4.0 files are dated November 11, 2003. 4.0 runtime fully supports applications coded for 3.0 and 2.0. * Version 5.1 files are dated March 9, 2006. 5.1 runtime does not support applications coded for 4.0 or before. * Version 5.2 files are dated April 11, 2007. 5.2 runtime does not support applications coded for 5.1 or before. Introduced June 5, 2007, adding code samples for data compression, new video codec support, support for 64-bit applications on , support for Windows Vista, and new functions for ray-tracing and rendering. * Version 6.1 was released with the

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on June 28, 2009. Update 1 for version 6.1 was released on July 28, 2009. Update 2 files are dated October 19, 2009. * Version 7.1 * Version 8.0 * Version 8.1 * Version 8.2 * Version 9.0 Initial Release, August 25, 2015 * Version 9.0 Update 1, December 1, 2015 * Version 9.0 Update 2 * Version 9.0 Update 3 * Version 9.0 Update 4 * Version 2017 Initial Release * Version 2017 Update 1 * Version 2017 Update 2 * Version 2017 Update 3, February 28, 2016 * Version 2018 Initial Release * Version 2018 Update 1 * Version 2018 Update 2 * Version 2018 Update 2.1 * Version 2018 Update 3 * Version 2018 Update 3.1 * Version 2018 Update 4, September 20, 2018 * Version 2019 Initial Release * Version 2019 Update 1 * Version 2019 Update 2 * Version 2019 Update 3, February 14, 2019 * Version 2019 Update 4 * Version 2019 Update 5 * Version 2020 Initial Release, December 12, 2019 * Version 2020 Update 1, March 30, 2020 * Version 2020 Update 2, July 16, 2020 * Version 2020 Update 3 * Version 2021 Initial Release * Version 2021.1 * Version 2021.2 * Version 2021.3 * Version 2021.4 * Version 2021.5 * Version 2021.6 * Version 2021.7, December 2022 * Version 2021.8, April 2023 * Version 2021.9.0, July 2023 * Version 2021.9.1, October 2023 * Version 2021.10.0, November 2023 * Version 2021.10.1, December 2023 * Version 2021.11.0, March 2024 * Version 2021.12.0, June 2024 * Version 2022.0.0, October 2024 * Version 2022.1.0 March 2025

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etc. for

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: Framewave (formerly the AMD Performance Library or APL) *

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: OpenMAX DL * NVIDIA Performance Primitives

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