PowerDVD, PowerDirector, MediaShow and MediaEspresso exploit new AMD hardware.
CyberLink has a track record of trying to keep up with hardware advances in its multimedia products. Now, the company has announced that its flagship products - PowerDVD, PowerDirector, MediaShow and MediaEspresso - have been optimized for the latest AMD A-Series Accelerator Processing Units (APU).
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HOLY SHIT! Someone is actually going to write code for the AMD family of processors instead of just kissing the honey basted ass of Intel? Say it isn't so?
It's not that I'm a complete fanboy of AMD, it's just that like (oh, I don't know) a few million other folks that need to up grade; I only have $400/500 for basically the whole upgrade, not just the F*$*ing processor. So a little code schmoozing either CPU would have been nice instead of the Intel salami factory going on over the last 2 years.
I guess the latest buzz over AMD's newest offering nipping at Sandy britches (or whatever the name of the thing is) has got some the software companies whimpering that they'll have to play ball with AMD again. And then again, maybe not. It's all a fickle industry.
if i have understood correctly they aren't supporting just AMD prosessor+gpu since they even support intel igpu and of course cuda. Still like you said it is nice that there is at least some companies who really want to support various ways take off load from cpu. I am not big fan of videoediting, but a relative of mine wants to buy new computer and basically heaviest task that he performs is videoediting.. so i should recommend system that does well in that and cyberlink´s effort might just put amd's system on recomended systems list for less expensive option. He has been using very old Pinnacle Studio, but if picture quality is decent while gpu is taking load off the cpu he might go for powerdirector.
Without getting too off topic; most software companies (as of late and any year) cater to whomever is the leader in the CPU market and will specifically write code into their product offing both it and that CPU manufacturer as if they were the performance leader at that time.
Therefore, unless the following CPU developers build their latest technologies (or something like it) into their CPU or into the architecture of the motherboard that can utilize the existing code, then they don't get to play. That's also when we all get bombarded with updates & glitches and the press starts blasting the manufacturer with bad news, sales take a hit; you start to see how R&D take a hit and it's hard to get anyone to make anything competitive.
My comment was to make a bastardized soothsayers attempt at mentioning that AMD may once again have a bonus in store for folks coming out here in the 3rd quarter (the projected release of Bulldozer & the cheaper more consumer CPU as well). A great processor that will give this supposed giant Intel a run for their money and two that throwing money down a pit doesn't always mean you're getting the best.
There'll be arguments of old re-cropping I'm sure... I won't get baited. I got thrown off those boards (that have gone the way of the dodo) long ago and I'm sure the new guys have the energy to take up the torch & run with that. Just saying it's nice to see that someone has let the cat out of the bag and has some foresight.
Having written that... Wish I had following on my blog that amounted to something. Would certainly like to have a worthy AMD system to report on to get out from under the Intel Sodom-nation.
