San Francisco (CA) – Adobe and ARM are working together to enable support for Flash 10 and AIR applications on ARM processors. The announcement expands Adobe platform reach to hundreds of millions of cellphones, set-top-boxes, TVs, automotive multimedia systems, personal media players and mobile computing devices.

Adobe and ARM said that the “joint technology optimization” targets ARMv6 and ARMv7, which are used in the ARM11 and Cortex-A series of processors and is expected to be available in the second half of 2009.

The partnership originated in the Open Screen Project, an Adobe-sponsored initiative to extend the reach of the Flash Player and AIR through a consistent runtime environment. “The initiative is set to address the challenges of Web browsing on a broad range of screens, and remove the barriers to publish content and applications seamlessly across screens,” Adobe said.  

“Video created for the Adobe Flash Player is the leading video format on the web today, and this collaboration with ARM is another important step towards bringing the complete web experience to mobile devices worldwide,” said Gary Kovacs, general manager and vice president, Mobile and Devices at Adobe.

The announcement addresses key shortcomings of ARM-based devices and has some interesting implications. For example, it makes products such as Nvidia’s ARM-based Tegra platform - which was pitched as an Intel Atom rival at least for some markets – much more interesting. Other companies that have built influential products based ARM processors include Samsung, Freescale, Samsung and Texas Instruments.

Adobe said that the Flash Player for ARMv6 and ARMv7 will be made available royalty-free “to partners participating in the Open Screen Project“.

That's nice ...

Nov 17, 2008 07:29     

... now when are they going to provide support for 64-bit Vista?
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Or what about....

Nov 17, 2008 09:43     

64-bit Linux? And if they're not going to do that, at least fix their buggy 32-bit copy in linux!
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Looking forward to these products so that I can vie...

Apr 28, 2009 10:20     

Looking forward to these products so that I can view www.hongkongtourmap.com on the mobile phones.
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