FPGA support was removed from the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Offline Compiler. If your workflows require this functionality, please use Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2020 Update 1, or Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™.

Updated OpenCL™ API Headers and OpenCL ICD Loader.

Removed assembly code generation for GPU functionality. If you need this functionality, use the OpenCL Offline Compiler.

Removed Intel® Debugger for Heterogeneous Compute (GPU kernel debugger). If you need this functionality, use the initial 2020 release, available on the download page

Removed Intel® CPU Runtime for OpenCL Applications 18.1 from the Windows* installer. You can install it manually from

/OpenCL/runtime/cpu/opencl_runtime.msi.

Note:

Disable your graphic card before installation to avoid installation issues.

Removed support for Ubuntu* 16.04.

Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2020 Update 1 includes bug fixes and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019.

Added support for the CentOS-8* platform.

Added support for generating an optimized ELF binary file from a SPIR-V file to the Offline Compiler command-line interface.

Removal of SPIR* functionality (use SPIR-V* instead).

Removal of Intel® Code Builder for OpenCL™ functionality.

Removal of Kernel Development Framework functionality (you can configure Intel® VTune™ Profiler to see OpenCL API calls).

Removal of OpenCL API Debugger functionality (you can use the Intercept Layer for OpenCL™ Applications for debugging).