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Sycle & ESCO Partner to Launch All-New Warranty Reminder Program for Hearing Clinics

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

LONE TREE, Colo., Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sycle, the leader in practice management software for hearing clinics, has partnered with ESCO, the longstanding leader of independent loss and damage coverage for hearing aids, to offer ESCO's innovative Custom Reminder Care program to Sycle clients. The partnership saves clinics time in reminding patients of expiring warranties and keeps patient relationships strong through high-touch care.

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  • Audiology industry leaders help clinics strengthen care, keep patient relationships strong, and simplify the reminder process
    LONE TREE, Colo., Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sycle, the leader in practice management software for hearing clinics, has partnered with ESCO, the longstanding leader of independent loss and damage coverage for hearing aids, to offer ESCO's innovative Custom Reminder Care program to Sycle clients.
  • The partnership saves clinics time in reminding patients of expiring warranties and keeps patient relationships strong through high-touch care.
  • This partnership helps clinics build their brand while maintaining important touchpoints with patients," continued Joel Lockwood, President of Sycle.
  • This partnership helps clinics build their brand while maintaining important touchpoints," continued Joel Lockwood, President of Sycle.

SYNCHRONY EXPANDS PARTNERSHIP WITH SYCLE TO DELIVER INTEGRATED DIGITAL PAYMENTS SOLUTIONS FOR HEARING PROVIDERS

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

STAMFORD, Conn. and DENVER, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Synchrony (NYSE: SYF), a leading consumer financing company, today announced the availability of Allegro Credit, a point of sale consumer financing solution for the hearing industry, on Sycle's practice management platform.

Key Points: 
  • "Technology partnerships with leading organizations like Sycle are key to help providers ensure they can meet the demands of today's changing consumer behaviors.
  • "Hearing care providers know how important hearing health is to a patient's qualify of life," said Joel Lockwood, President of Sycle.
  • Over 8,000 clinics and 20,000 hearing care professionals in 13 countries worldwide depend on Sycle to run their businesses.
  • This allows clients more time with their patients and ultimately helps them treat more people suffering from hearing loss.

Intel Accelerates Developer Innovation with Open, Software-First Approach

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

On Day 2 of Intel Innovation, Intel illustrated how 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 stack.

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  • On Day 2 of Intel Innovation, Intel illustrated how 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 stack.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220928005326/en/
    The two-day Intel Innovation 2022 event closes Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, with a keynote featuring Intel Chief Technology Officer Greg Lavender.
  • Intel will continue to deliver developer tools and easy-to-access toolkits based on those oneAPI specifications.
  • Intel, the Intel logo and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries.

Khronos glTF 2.0 Released as an ISO/IEC International Standard

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Khronos® Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announced that its glTF™ 2.0 specification for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D models has been released as the ISO/IEC 12113:2022 International Standard. Khronos has successfully completed the transposition of glTF 2.0 through the ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS (Publicly Available Specification) Submission Process to solidify glTF's global recognition and accelerate its adoption by industry and other standards. Khronos will continue to evolve glTF as a Khronos specification and regularly update ISO/IEC 12113 with proven, widely available glTF functionality to avoid industry fragmentation. The ISO/IEC 12113:2022 specification is available here.

Key Points: 
  • Khronos will continue to evolve glTF as a Khronos specification and regularly update ISO/IEC 12113 with proven, widely available glTF functionality to avoid industry fragmentation.
  • glTF 2.0 was submitted to JTC 1 in October 2021 and was unanimously approved as an International Standard by all voting national standards bodies with no requested technical changes.
  • "In 2013, Khronos launched the glTF initiative with the goal to create a 3D asset format that was as pervasive as JPEG for images - and now glTF, like JPEG, is an International Standard," said Neil Trevett, vice president developer ecosystems at NVIDIA and Khronos president.
  • This provides developers the choice to use the Khronos specification that defines the latest glTF functionality and extensions, or ISO/IEC 12113 for the compatible set of glTF functionality that has been approved as an International Standard.

Intel Open-Sources SYCLomatic Migration Tool to Help Developers Create Heterogeneous Code

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Whats New: Intel has released an open source tool to migrate code to SYCL1 through a project called SYCLomatic , which helps developers more easily port CUDA code to SYCL and C++ to accelerate cross-architecture programming for heterogeneous architectures.

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  • Whats New: Intel has released an open source tool to migrate code to SYCL1 through a project called SYCLomatic , which helps developers more easily port CUDA code to SYCL and C++ to accelerate cross-architecture programming for heterogeneous architectures.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220519005346/en/
    SYCLomatic assists developers in porting CUDA code to SYCL, typically migrating 90-95% of CUDA code automatically to SYCL code.
  • How the SYCLomatic Tool Works: SYCLomatic assists developers in porting CUDA code to SYCL, typically migrating 90-95% of CUDA code automatically to SYCL code2.
  • Since the current version of the code migration tool does not support migration to functors, we wrote a simple clang tool to refactor the resulting SYCL source code to meet our needs.

Sycle, Industry-Leading Practice Management Software Provider, Announces New President

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

DENVER, March 17, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sycle LLC, the leading practice management solution provider in hearing healthcare, is pleased to announce that Joel Lockwood has been appointed President of Sycle.

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  • DENVER, March 17, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sycle LLC, the leading practice management solution provider in hearing healthcare, is pleased to announce that Joel Lockwood has been appointed President of Sycle.
  • His management experience includes enterprise, start-ups and agency organizations, working with F500 customers as well as small businesses.
  • "We're excited to have Joel on board as President," said Tony Manna, President of Cochlear Americas /Cochlear LTD., Sycle's parent company.
  • It started as an idea to help audiologists better connect with their patients; today, Sycle has evolved into the audiology industry's number one practice management software.

Khronos Releases Vulkan SC 1.0 Open Standard for Safety-Critical Accelerated Graphics and Compute

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

The Vulkan SC Conformance Test Suite is also freely available in open source, and multiple vendors have officially-conformant Vulkan SC 1.0 implementations.

Key Points: 
  • The Vulkan SC Conformance Test Suite is also freely available in open source, and multiple vendors have officially-conformant Vulkan SC 1.0 implementations.
  • The new Vulkan SC 1.0 specification leverages the proven Vulkan 1.2 API to meet these requirements while delivering state-of-the-art graphics and compute acceleration.
  • Conformant Implementations are running today on CoreAVI's VkCore SC graphics and compute drivers, and NVIDIA DRIVE and Jetson Platforms.
  • Khronos activities include 3D Commerce, ANARI, glTF, NNEF, OpenCL, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenVX, OpenXR, SPIR-V, SYCL, Vulkan, and WebGL.

Khronos and EMVA Issue Call for Participation for New Camera API Working Group

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

"The Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group followed the Khronos New Initiative Process with invaluable cooperation from the EMVA.

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  • "The Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group followed the Khronos New Initiative Process with invaluable cooperation from the EMVA.
  • "The close and productive collaboration between the EMVA and Khronos has been very effective in enabling a broader industry participation and diversity of perspectives at the Embedded Camera Exploratory Group than either organization could have achieved working alone," said Chris Yates, EMVA president.
  • "EMVA will continue to work closely with Khronos under our new liaison agreement to ensure that the interests of both the EMVA membership and the wider industry are represented at the new Camera API working group."
  • The Camera API Working Group will start meetings in February 2022 and is expected to be of particular interest to sensor or camera manufacturers, silicon vendors, and software developers working on vision and sensor processing.

Intel Empowers Developers with oneAPI 2022 Toolkits

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

More Details: The 2022 Intel oneAPI toolkits deliver performance and productivity through a complete set of advanced tools including compilers, libraries, pre-optimized frameworks, analyzers and debuggers.

Key Points: 
  • More Details: The 2022 Intel oneAPI toolkits deliver performance and productivity through a complete set of advanced tools including compilers, libraries, pre-optimized frameworks, analyzers and debuggers.
  • Hardware support Intel oneAPI Toolkits are optimized to enable advanced features of the latest and upcoming new hardware, including 12th Gen Intel Core processors with AVX-VNNI, Next Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Sapphire Rapids with Intel Advanced Matrix Extension (Intel AMX), and upcoming Xe client and data center GPUs.
  • About Intel oneAPI Toolkits: Intel oneAPI toolkits deliver the tools needed to efficiently develop high-performance applications and solutions across a variety of Intel architectures (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs).
  • Intel, the Intel logo and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries.

Codeplay Software partners with Andes Technology to achieve Software First SoC Design for AI-based applications using RISC-V Vector Processors

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Monday, December 6, 2021

This will enable customers to implement a software-first strategy and then move to specific SoC architecture based on the NX27V.

Key Points: 
  • This will enable customers to implement a software-first strategy and then move to specific SoC architecture based on the NX27V.
  • Incorporating one or more vector processor cores, SoC developers and designers can create applications that leverage a Single-Instruction / Multi Data (SIMD) heterogeneous architecture.
  • Codeplay is embracing the software-first approach to designing complex compute systems, said Andrew Richards, CEO and founder of Codeplay Software.
  • Together, Andes Technology and Codeplay Software are offering a solution to allow developers and designers to leverage the best of open standards for hardware and software.