Heads Up - Silverlight 3, Adobe AIR support Intel's Moblin OS

Intel, during its developer's forum, announced Moblin 2.1, the company's Linux distribution that is both media-centric and scalable. Both Adobe and Microsoft announced support for Moblin, with their respective AIR and Silverlight platforms.

See the write-up at StreamingMedia.com but here are a few other quotes.

The first two are from Elemental Technologies, a company that uses Graphics Processor Units (GPUs) to accelerate encoding and transcoding.


Sam Blackman, Elemental's CEO, has spent time researching Larrabee, and sees it as a positive for programmers.

"Larrabee uses a modified x86 multi-core architecture rather than the streaming architecture traditionally associated with GPUs," said Blackman. "This means there is a broader instruction set available to the programmer than with streaming processors, and thus certain operations can be performed with fewer lines of code. This doesn’t necessarily mean the code will run faster or more efficiently, of course. While I don’t know the details of this specific example, my guess is that they are running the code entirely on Larrabee rather than 'pulling' any back to the CPU.

"It's definitely an interesting architecture and great for us," said Andy Beach, VP of Marketing at Elemental. "It adds yet more competition into the hardware space that, to date, was dominated by GPU-only cards. We can provide an even more appealing offer, I think, as we actually use both CPU and GPU in our transcoding."