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Flash Player 10.1 Gets Hardware Acceleration Through ATI Stream Technology

Latest Flash Player installment takes advantage of available hardware resources

Nov 17, 2009 07:08 GMT  ·  By
AMD delivers support for Flash Player 10.1
   AMD delivers support for Flash Player 10.1

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just revealed that the recently-announced Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta will be supported by platforms powered by Vision Technology from AMD. The latest installment of Adobe's Flash Player takes advantage of the benefits and features that are enabled through AMD's ATI Stream technology, providing an improved video playback, reduced CPU utilization and longer battery life through the combination of using the resources available from both the CPU and the GPU.

“AMD and Adobe have collaborated to enable ATI Stream technology through Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to help end users more easily experience , create and share their visual media,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president of AMD’s Products Group. “Adobe Flash Player is one of the world's most pervasive multimedia platforms and the number one video platform on the web today. By taking advantage of both the CPU and GPU resources available on AMD platforms, the new player delivers video that looks and performs better than ever before.”

Expected to become available through Adobe starting the first half of 2010, the new Flash Player 10.1 targets the standard DXVA APIs in Windows, taking advantage of the available hardware acceleration from supported AMD products. The list of notebook and desktop platforms that will support the acceleration of Flash Player 10.1 include ATI's Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800 series of graphics cards, Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series (and higher), Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics (and higher) and the ATI FirePro V3750, V5700, V7750, V8700 and V8750 graphics accelerators.

“AMD has been at the forefront of utilizing both the CPU and GPU on x86-based platforms to improve the performance of popular runtimes like the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “Consumers will be able to enjoy a smooth viewing experience when accessing rich, HD video content built with the Adobe Flash Platform on AMD based Windows PCs.”