HD Flash video recording , which has a hearty appetency for CPU cycles , and Intel ’s Atom , which does n’t have huge nimiety of said CPU cycle per second , have never made a majuscule couple . So Adobe get serious about Flash hardware quickening on netbooks is corking news show ! Well , for some . Eventually .
The announcement fare in two parts : one fromNvidia ; one fromBroadcom . Both promise full computer hardware acceleration for Flash video , primarily by means of upgrades to Adobe ’s plugin , guaranteeing placid playback of HD trice telecasting . Perhaps more importantly , this also means much , much lower CPU employment during regular video playback .
The reason behind this two - pronged annunciation scheme , alas , is that the first wafture of optimisation will only benefit hardware base on either Nvidia ’s powerhouseTegrasolution , or Atom netbooks which have Broadcom ’s Crystal HD video accelerator add - on , which must either be set up by the OEM ( rare ) or stop up into a PCI - due east Mini port or ExpressCard porthole . In other word of honor , current - gen netbooks , based on Intel ’s chipsets , are kind of left out in the cold , unless Adobe pulls a surprise out of their chapeau in the next few month .
https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-announces-12-tegra-products-youll-probably-never-5275262
We wo n’t see this Flash upgrade for Atom until “ the first half of 2010 ” , though the release hint the Tegra will corroborate it from the get - go . It ’s a tone in the right direction , but not a immense one .
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