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Imagination and Adobe have been working together to bring acceleration of the Flash Player to the growing base of more than 200m POWERVR enabled mobile and consumer devices.

With the release of Adobe Flash 10.1 for mobile devices, tens of millions of smartphone devices will be able to display Flash- based web content in browsers equipped with Flash Player 10.1. Imagination will demonstrate a preview of the player with full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. This promises to deliver significant performance improvements that take full advantage of the growing proliferation of GPUs now becoming standard in most smartphones.

Tony King-Smith, VP Marketing, Imagination Technologies, says: We are thrilled to be demonstrating the benefits of hardware acceleration for Flash Player 10.1 with OpenGL ES 2.0 for mobile platforms. Imagination's specialist expertise and leadership in high performance, low power graphics and video acceleration has enabled us to provide unique experiences, as a key part of our contribution to the Open Screen Project. We believe the ultimate goal is for Adobe's Flash Platform to be able to take full advantage of OpenGL ES 2 graphics acceleration as well as video acceleration under all mobile OS's, including Linux, Android, WinMobile and Symbian, to maximise performance and minimise power consumption and CPU host load on mobile and embedded platforms. This demonstration brings Adobe and the Open Screen Project partners an important step closer to that goal.

Imagination has recently joined the Open Screen Project. Accelerating all aspects of the browser's graphics and video functionality for all mobile, consumer and embedded devices is a key goal for Imagination.

Continues King-Smith: Connected mobile devices require Flash technology for an uncompromised web experience. Device manufacturers and consumers are demanding this to enable the full potential of ubiquitous and unconstrained web browsing. Application processor chips with POWERVR SGX OpenGL ES 2.0 are already shipping in more than 100 million units today from Imagination's leading semiconductor partners, and are already at the heart of many of today's most iconic mobile, consumer and automotive products. By exploiting the breadth of this growing installed base of real products, Adobe and Imagination can together accelerate the proliferation of Flash Player 10.1 in mobile and other markets in the shortest possible time.