Today, we at TI enthusiastically applaud Adobe® for its release of Flash® Player 10.1, as this highly anticipated milestone promises outstanding experiences for mobile consumers. Flash Player 10.1 is completely redesigned and optimized for mobile, delivering new interaction methods with support for mobile-specific input models. Thanks to Flash Player 10.1, mobile users will soon be able to experience richer applications and content inside the browser, including games, animation, data presentations, music, video and more.

 

We have numerous design wins ramping up, not to mention more in the pipeline, and we know from customers and developers that Flash Player 10.1 is one major leap the mobile industry has been anxiously awaiting. To ensure that our customers benefit immediately from the Flash innovation, we’ve been working diligently with our long-time partner Adobe to get our OMAP™ processors primed and ready to support Flash Player 10.1—including having an H264-BP video codec accelerated on OMAP dedicated video hardware. Armed with Flash Player 10.1 support, OMAP processors will help our customers bring high-performance, low-power mobile applications, content and video to consumers without sacrificing power consumption, performance or cost.

 

This rich-multimedia theme is well in line with TI’s vision for OMAP processors. Today, they deliver immersive user interfaces, hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics, 12-megapixel image capture, 720p high-definition (HD) video record/playback and other robust features to mobile devices at low power levels. As the industry realizes new achievements like Flash Player 10.1, the OMAP family will continue to bring features like uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and HD videos to consumers’ hands. 

 

Hats off, Adobe. This is a major stepping stone for our teams, and for the entire mobile community. We’re thrilled to know that Flash Player 10.1 will land on exciting OMAP processor-based devices in the near future! Readers, let me know what you think here in the comments section – I’d love to hear from you.