Adobe and ARM have announced a technology collaboration to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for ARM powered devices. Both companies will work on development of Adobe Flash technology for the ARMv6 and ARMv7 architectures used in the ARM11 family and the Cortex-A series of processors and it will be available in the second half of 2009.
"Adobe Flash 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. "We are pleased to work with ARM and the other industry leaders in the Open Screen Project, to make browsing and applications as rich and powerful in mobile as they are on the desktop."
"ARM believes this partnership will develop optimized Adobe Flash and AIR implementations that will run on billions of devices from our Partners such as pocket-sized mobile devices, mobile computing platforms, set-top boxes, digital TVs and automotive infotainment," said Ian Drew, vice president, Marketing at ARM. "The Adobe Flash Player enables consumers to enjoy games, movies, animation and interactivity on the Web. The combination of Adobe Flash and ARM's low-power processor IP and Mali(TM) GPUs will ensure a fantastic Internet experience for consumers on the world's leading 32-bit architecture."
Many other companies are also working with Adobe and ARM on the project, including Broadcom, Freescale, NVIDIA, Samsung and Texas Instruments. The minimum system requirement for the upcoming Flash technology for ARM processors will be at least 200MHz processors, more than 16MB RAM and fully capable web browser. As the joint technology development is aiming to deliver Adobe Flash to existing mobile devices based on ARM processor, Apple’s iPhone can benefit from this development. But, in the end, Apple will decide whether they want Flash on the iPhone or not.
[Via PR Newswire]