NVIDIA and Opera Software team-up to accelerate mobile web browsing
By Dusan Belic on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 3:58 PM PST In Announcements, Mobile Web, Partnerships
NVIDIA Corporation and Opera Software are collaborating to bring the full desktop Web-browsing experience — including support for JavaScript, accelerated vector graphics, and video content — to smartphones and mobile Internet devices. As a result, NVIDIA will offer an optimized Opera 9.5 browser in its suite of pre-integrated, in-house and third-party software for the NVIDIA Tegra family of computer-on-chip Windows Mobile and Windows CE solutions.
NVIDIA’s Tegra solutions integrate ARM CPUs, extensive media acceleration and integrated GeForce GPUs. Such, Tegra-powered Opera 9.5 is made to provide mobile users with a full desktop like browsing experience with hardware-accelerated rich media, image and in-page video playback. GPU acceleration is there to deliver a smooth, highly-interactive panning and zooming browsing experience with significantly-reduced battery consumption.
Devices with the Opera browser powered by NVIDIA Tegra hardware are expected to be available to consumers in 2009.
