"Web developers can take advantage of the hardware ecosystem's advances in graphics, but don't have to rewrite their sites to do that," Hachamovitch said.<p>Microsoft isn't alone in exploring
graphics acceleration: The top engineers at Mozilla and Opera both said that their companies are pursing the same grail.<p>"We have our own projects to use OpenGL on open platforms, and Microsoft's APIs on Windows," said Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of engineering.
The Nokia N900 packs a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0
graphics acceleration. The result is PC-like multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously.
The Neo Freerunner is a GSM tri-band mobile phone with a VGA touch screen, 2D/3D
graphics acceleration, 256 Mbytes of NAND Flash memory, Wi-Fi, AGPS, and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as 3-axis motion sensing.
The POWERVR VGX IP core family is focused on delivering efficient vector
graphics acceleration for OpenVG, SVG and Flash content, as well as composition standards like OpenWF.
Graphics acceleration features from Provision Networks enhance the end-user experience by providing for more responsive web browser scrolling and better performance for graphically intensive and Flash-embedded websites.
VAN clients require no
graphics acceleration, so almost any system can display advanced graphics.
"Our experience with Falanx and the Mali
graphics acceleration core has provided the high performance and low power requirements needed to be competitive in the mobile space," said Coby Sella, vice president, general manager at Zoran's Mobile division.
It is a well-defined subset of the OpenGL desktop API, creating a flexible and powerful low-level interface between software and
graphics acceleration.
The Enhanced Multimedia Platform chipsets include the same multimedia and
graphics acceleration and are software compatible to promote portability of advanced multimedia applications between Enhanced Multimedia-enabled handsets.
For SK Telecom's GIGA platform, our combined solution has achieved Java VM acceleration by 100x, Java 2D
graphics acceleration by 30x and over 6x acceleration for 3D graphics.