Adobe releases Flash 11, AIR 3

The new version supports multi-threaded video decoding

Software giants Adobe on Saturday released version 11 of their Flash software along with AIR 3 bringing about accelerated graphics rendering support through Stage 3D.  Adobe states that the new technology improves rendering times by a factor of up to a 1000 times over Flash Player 10. The capabilities of the new version of Flash allows for “console-quality” games on the Flash platform, according to their blog.

Also with version 11 comes support for 64-bit, and multi-threaded video decoding which previously was not available at all.