SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - November 9, 2009) - CyberLink's award-winning photo and video
editing software now includes unique new features and significantly
improved performance when used with PCs equipped with NVIDIA® GeForce®
and NVIDIA ION™ graphics processing units (GPUs), the two companies
announced today.
Among improvements that NVIDIA GPU users can enjoy are GPU-accelerated
photo face-recognition, GPU-accelerated upscaling of DVD movies to near-HD
quality, GPU-accelerated video decoding, and GPU-accelerated video
encoding. These features are all made possible by the NVIDIA CUDA™
parallel computing hardware architecture.
"NVIDIA and CyberLink are at the forefront of the GPU Computing
revolution," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "CyberLink is committed
to extending our support for NVIDIA's CUDA architecture, enabling our photo
and video applications to deliver the best user experience at the highest
level of performance."
GeForce-owners can enjoy the following improvements with CyberLink digital
video applications:
- CyberLink MediaShow 5 is a powerful solution for managing and enjoying
your photos and videos, uses the NVIDIA CUDA architecture to accelerate
face detection, helping you find and tag your friends and family in your
photo library. It detects faces as much as 70% faster than a CPU alone and
speeds up video conversion by as much as 500%. GPU-acceleration of the face
tagging process is only available to owners of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.
- CyberLink PowerDVD 9 is an award-winning video player software program.
Consumers with NVIDIA GeForce GPUs can enjoy GPU-accelerated upscaling of
DVD movies to near-HD quality. GPU-acceleration provides lower CPU
utilization for a better user experience and greater system compatibility.
- CyberLink MediaShow Espresso is an easy to use video conversion
application that prepares digital video for a wide variety of portable
devices, such as the iPod, iPhone, or PSP at very high speeds with
excellent quality. MediaShow Espresso has been further accelerated with
today's update to as much as 500% faster than an average CPU.
- CyberLink PowerDirector 8 is a consumer-oriented video editing program
that features full end-to-end support for high definition video, from
importing to editing and output. Owners of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs can benefit
from both GPU-accelerated special effects and video encoding in
PowerDirector 8.
- CyberLink PowerProducer 5 is authoring software that lets you create
compelling HD video and slideshow discs from your digital camcorder or
camera media. PowerProducer's optimization for NVIDIA CUDA technologies
ensures faster production of your video projects using PCs equipped with
CUDA-enabled graphics cards.
"CyberLink continues to amaze consumers with their innovative use of NVIDIA
GPUs and the CUDA architecture," said Michael Steele, general manager of
visual consumer solutions at NVIDIA. "They are a leader in leveraging the
flexibility and maturity of CUDA to deliver digital home products with
uncompromising quality and features that are unique to NVIDIA GeForce
customers."
The CUDA architecture enables the broadest array of GPU computing
programming language support and API support, including Microsoft's
DirectCompute, OpenCL, CUDA C, CUDA Fortran, and others. With over 150
million CUDA-enabled GPUs in the market, NVIDIA continues to evolve the
CUDA development environment with a growing set of tools, libraries and
academic momentum.
For more information on NVIDIA GPUs visit
http://www.nvidia.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (
NASDAQ:
NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics
when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then,
it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with
breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from
portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in
programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which
make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has
ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years
in a row. For more information, see
www.nvidia.com.
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