14 DAY TRIAL // Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices and CyberLink Corp. have jointly announced today that they will extend their partnership to include a focus on Microsoft's DirectX 11 DirectCompute technology and take advantage of the capabilities of AMD's latest DirectX 11-capable graphics architecture. Cyberlink and AMD will work together on accelerating some of the features that are available in Cyberlink's applications, including video transcoding, automated facial recognition and tagging, video editing and processing applications, using the ATI Stream technology and the new Windows 7 DirectCompute API.
“CyberLink's applications are known for their intuitive experience and optimized performance,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “DirectCompute enables our engineers to significantly ramp up the pace of development of our GPU accelerated software. Thanks to AMD's compelling PC platforms with ATI Stream technology and support for DirectX 11, CyberLink is leading the industry in accelerating photo and video software performance with DirectCompute.”
As you may have already found out, AMD's ATI Stream technology is the chip maker's tool for helping developers accelerate their applications by tapping into the performance capabilities of the multi-core CPUs and GPUs that are available in today's computer systems. With AMD's latest line of Radeon 5800-series graphics cards being the only hardware to deliver support for Microsoft's DirectX 11 API, the chip maker wastes no time in promoting the features and capabilities that have been integrated into its latest GPUs.
“DirectX 11, a key set of features in Windows 7, enables developers to take full advantage of the GPUs found in many of today’s PCs,” said Mike Ybarra, general manager of Windows Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “Specifically, DirectCompute technology helps accelerate the performance across several scenarios that historically took a long time to complete when just using the CPU. CyberLink’s support of DirectCompute in their latest applications results in higher performance across these scenarios – something that our joint customers have asked for.”