The Linux Foundation announced this week the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation (https://uxlfoundation.org/). The organization's mission is to provide "an open-standard accelerator programming model that simplifies the development of high-performance, cross-platform applications."

Founding members of the foundation include Arm, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung and others. But Nvidia was absent, offering its own CUDA programming model for using its GPUs.

At the heart of this new foundation is an evolution of the oneAPI initiative, which also aims to create a new programming model that makes it easier for developers to support a variety of accelerators, whether they are GPUs, FPGAs, or other specialized accelerators.