Monday, October 5, 2009

Adobe announced Flash Player 10.1

Adobe announced the first half of 2010 the release of version 10.1 of Flash Player with full support for GPU acceleration.

The information had already filtered with the evocation of an acceleration of Flash fully supported by the GPU. Sure thing, this support will be the agenda for NVIDIA and especially for its Tegra platform and ION.


Adobe today confirmed the arrival of Flash Player 10.1, developed through the Open Screen Project which NVIDIA addition, we find names such as ARM, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson .. . or Google and many content distributors. 10.1 Flash Player and will find themselves at the heart of many devices.

For this version 10.1, which sounds the reign of the unification with the same grinding for various pateformes, Adobe promises necessarily optimizing the consumption of system resources. But Flash Player 10.1 This is not for now.

A beta version will be available later this year for the desktop Windows OS, Mac OS X and Linux, and Windows Mobile, Palm webOS. Beginning 2010, the public beta will be available for Google Android and Symbian OS, while a partnership was signed with RIM to bring Flash Player for BlackBerry smartphones. By cons, still no Flash Player for the iPhone, lack of full support from Apple, Adobe regret that.

The general availability of Flash Player 10.1 is scheduled for the first half of 2010. The 64-bit versions are not available, but Adobe has reaffirmed its commitment to provide native support for 64-bit Flash Player on Windows and Mac OS X. Currently, only a 64-bit alpha version of Flash Player is available for Linux.

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