The hardware acceleration functionality will now be pushed to version 9. Given the speed at which Google pushes out new iterations of its browser in several channels, it is still likely that the code will be included in a build before the end of the year.
Microsoft, on the other hand, was awarded a patent for GPU-accelerated video encoding technology today, and it's Internet Explorer 9 web browser puts a huge emphasis on hardware acceleration to push up performance for web applications and multimedia content.
The news for Microsoft comes at a very good time, when the hardware acceleration race is heating up. How the patent will affect Google software (if at all) remains to be seen, but it is being seen as a major score for Microsoft.
The Redmond-based software giant filed for the patent in 2004.
Written by: James Delahunty @ 13 Oct 2010 13:16
