That&#x27;s good news.  The requirement to purchase the Intel C compiler and tools like MKL before programming their processors efficiently is IMO one of the chief reasons why NVIDIA is kicking them to the curb here with 6.6 TFLOP $1,000 consumer GPUs that come with an enormous toolkit of free candy, including a DNN kernel library that plugs into all the important frameworks.<p>Compare and contrast with ~1 TFLOP ~$7,000 Xeon CPUs.<p>I have brought this up with multiple Intel engineers and for the most part they nod and agree.  Then they tell me that there&#x27;s no way Intel would ever start doing things like NVIDIA does here.  And then I nod and tell them why I continue to bet on NVIDIA for the immediate future, sigh...