AMD recently presented the new Brazos platform sporting the Fusion APU processor. Fusion competes with Atom in some segments, and now Adobe has released a sharp version of Flash Player 10.2 that enables support for AMD Fusion APU when playing and accelerating flash video, which includes Youtube and other services.
With Flash Player 10.2 AMD Fusion will be capable of playing 1080p video thanks to the integrate video processor. Considering AMD Fusion is a highly efficient and cheap processor circuit, competing with Intel Atom – where the latter can’t even do 720p – this is a real feat for AMD.
AMD points out that the support for 1080p flash video is true for all Fusion APUs, which was made possible through the support for Stage Video that was introduced in Flash Player 10.2. The Stage Video API enables developers to make us of hardware acceleration in modern circuits, which is supported by Fusion APU and other GPUs from AMD. The new Stage Video API will minimize CPU loads during flash video playback as much as possible.
AMD and Adobe worked together to enable 1080p high-definition (HD) video playback performance via improved video hardware acceleration capabilities on all devices based on the AMD 2011 low-power platform (formerly codenamed “Brazos”), as well as other platforms employing AMD graphics. With the release of Flash Player 10.2, enhanced 1080p playback capabilities are enabled by AMD’s low-power C-Series and E-Series processors, including C-30, C-50 and E-350, offering a more vivid video experience to users of HD netbooks, notebooks and tablets.
AMD Fusion APU is currently available through several system builders and component makers, often of the mini-ITX format.
ASUS E35MI-I Deluxe takes Brazos to Mini-ITX
Flash Player 10.2 supports hardware acceleration on the following GPUs and platforms from AMD;
- ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5000, HD 6000
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000, HD 5000 and HD 6000M
- ATI Radeon HD 3000 integrated circuits, and newer
- ATI FirePro™ V3750, V5700, V7750, V8700 and V8750, and newer
