ARM's Support For Adobe Flash : 5 Questions To ARM's President

We caught up (virtually) with Tudor Brown, one of the founders of ARM and currently President of the Cambridge-based company and were given the opportunity to ask some quick-fire questions about Adobe's latest Flash 10.1 runtime and ARM's family of processors.

What ARM processors will support the new Adobe Flash 10.1? Are there any restrictions or minimum specs?

Adobe Flash 10.1 is supported on Cortex-A processors.

What's the difference between this Flash and the Flash lite that comes with most smartphones?

Adobe Flash player 10.1 enables the full desktop web experience on mobile devices.  With Flash Player 10.1, Hulu, BBC iPlayer and other applications will now be available across a range of devices.

Performance wise, what other parameters need to be considered for an optimum Flash experience?

We’ve worked with Adobe to optimize Flash Platform technology and accelerate graphics and video for a full range of ARM Powered devices.

This means devices will deliver rich applications and the full web to mobile devices and consumer electronics worldwide without sacrificing power consumption, performance or cost.

Of course Flash 10.1 is expected to run on a reasonable performance A-class ARM processor with a well-designed memory system.