The FINANCIAL — At Adobe MAX, Adobe’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq:QCOM), one of the leading developers and innovators of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, on October 5 announced the two companies are working together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and dramatically increase performance for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for Qualcomm’s chipsets targeted at smartphones and smartbooks.
The first consumer devices ready to support Flash Player 10.1 will be smartbooks and smartphones from companies such as Toshiba and will be based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset. Qualcomm will introduce broader support within its product portfolio for Flash Player 10.1 when the beta version of the player becomes available before the end of the year.
"Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is the first browser-based runtime to come out of the Open Screen Project and provides a consistent runtime that delivers uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and HD video. Unveiled at Adobe MAX today, Flash Player 10.1 leverages the power of the GPU on supported devices — such as Snapdragon with its integrated high-performance graphics core — for accelerated video and graphics while conserving battery life and resource utilization," Adobe informs.
“Adobe has a longstanding relationship with Qualcomm as one of the first participants in the Open Screen Project,” said David Wadhwani, vice president and general manager, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “With Adobe Flash technology being the No. 1 platform for video delivery online, Qualcomm’s chipset portfolio, which includes the innovative Snapdragon platform, will help bring the latest, most innovative Web experiences created using the Flash Platform to next-generation smartphones and smartbooks.”
“Qualcomm is continually looking to enable richer multimedia experiences on mobile devices, and the Adobe Flash Platform technologies will be a significant part of that effort moving forward,” said Rob Chandhok, vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. “As mobile devices increasingly become a primary method of accessing the Internet, our collaboration with Adobe provides our device manufacturing customers with the ability to deliver even more compelling and full-featured products to the market.”
Qualcomm’s chipset portfolio offers a wide range of solutions that feature an industry-leading level of integration — enabling slimmer, sleeker devices with higher-end functionality that redefines the possibilities of a mobile device. The company’s product lines include the Snapdragon platform, which offers an unprecedented combination of mobile processing performance, optimized power consumption, ubiquitous connectivity and powerful multimedia in a single chip. Snapdragon is enabling smarter smartphones, as well as a new class of devices called smartbooks that delivers the best aspects of a smartphone experience. Smartbooks last all day on a single battery charge and offer constant connectivity, instant-on functionality and customizable and intuitive interfaces — all in a device with a large-display form factor.
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