Date: 17th Feb 2010
ST-Ericsson building support for Adobe
Flash Player10.1 on its smart-phone chips
ST Micro and ST-Ericsson are working together with Adobe
to accelerate Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR on their
chipsets with multimedia and graphics capabilities, used
in smartphones and connected digital-home devices.
The Open Screen Project aims to deliver a runtime environment
for both web content and standalone applications across
all devices leveraging the Flash Platform.
"By providing built-in support for one of the most
commonly-used rich-media technology on the internet, enabling
video streaming and other highly-popular web services, we
are taking the smartphone browsing experience to another
level," said Marc Cetto, Senior Vice President and
head of 3G and Multimedia division at ST-Ericsson. "Our
highly power-efficient smartphone platforms are well suited
to delivering the engaging Flash enabled multimedia experience
that people have become accustomed to on PCs."
"Flash extends consumers' multimedia experience by
adding to the broadcast services' seamless access to internet
content and applications," said Laurent Remont, Director
of Advanced System Architecture, Home Entertainment and
Displays, STMicroelectronics. "Our collaboration with
Adobe will deliver implementations of Flash for the digital
home on current and recently announced set-top box and digital
TV chips, enabling consumers to view on-demand high-definition
video, 3D graphics, browse the full web, and interact with
rich applications on their televisions."
"ST-Ericsson and ST are set to play a critical role
in bringing the full Flash based Web experience to the hundreds
of millions of people worldwide now using smartphones netbooks
and other mobile devices, said Bryant Macy, senior director,
Product Marketing, Platform Business at Adobe. As the smartphone
and consumer electronics markets open up to the more than
two million Flash developers, I am sure we will see another
boost of creativity and innovation that will further enrich
consumers' web experience."
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