Here’s some good news for the mobile industry - mobile gaming and mobile internet, that is.
nVidia is a member of Open Handset Alliance which is behind Google Android project. ARM has shown its first cell phone applications processor — the APX 2500, on Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona last week. On the other hand, nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said it will be used in the 2nd gen iPhones. I guess he’s playing it sure until Google Android starts making waves on the mobile device market with people buying devices in significant quantities.
An ARM-based Android mobile phone prototype has been premiered in Barcelona as well. From the ARM’s side, ARM Mali technology enables “high quality and fastedst time to market through integrated and proven support of a first class graphics stack including hardware, driver software, middleware (Java) and tools”. This mobile technology from ARM enriches the offering for Java development for the mobile devices provided by ARM Jazelle Technology.
Connecting the dots, it can be concluded that this is the tip of the iceberg of good news for Google Android as well. Mobile device hardware market is obviously accelerating. It’s the 2nd desktop computing revolution, only on mobile phones. I mean graphics accelator in a device in your hand.
Wouldn’t you like to play Unreal Tournament against other commuters? :-)
