Comments on: NEC Demos Adobe Flash Lite Intellectual Property

By: RSD

RSD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:37:30 +0000

Update to previous comment: NEC finally delivered on their promised Flash Lite hardware-based acceleration technology.

Here’s the Dec. 10th news release: http://www.necst.co.jp/english/press/20081210/index.htm

Here’s a much older but related post: http://www.necst.co.jp/english/press/20080513/index.htm

The hardware-based acceleration uses an OpenGL 1.1 compliant graphics rendering engine called GA88 Series/IWAYAG.

By: RSD

RSD — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:28:19 +0000

Well…here it is the middle of November and still no word on this tech. So much for August. My e-mail to NEC soliciting further info has, of course, fallen on deaf ears. Perhaps it’s only available with a non-disclosure agreement(as is the case with WRTime) but so far, no response from NEC or updates from anyone else. Just curious if anyone else is tracking this. Per the usual, initial announcements abound, but rarely any follow-up.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:08:30 +0000

Ambiguous is certainly the word. But intriguing none the less. Lets see what it brings in august!

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:37:44 +0000

Thanks for the link. That article reads ambiguously to me too.

One possibility is that they’re offloading video decompression to hardware, similar to On2’s Hantro work.

Or it might be that they’re doing something with the Open Screen Project… this specifically allows for device customization.

We’ll hear when it ships, I guess….

jd/adobe