Nvidia 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.
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.
"Seamless, effortless Internet access is critical to any
state-of-the-art connected mobile device, and the
combination of Opera 9.5 and NVIDIA Tegra will deliver the
full Web experience into the palm of your hand," said Neil
Trevett, vice president of mobile content at NVIDIA. "Opera
and NVIDIA are cooperating to create a powerful browsing
experience that will truly make the Internet an integral
part of the advanced Tegra mobile visual computing
experience."
The Tegra family of computer-on-chip solutions integrates
ARM CPUs, extensive media acceleration and
integrated GeForce GPUs that enable Opera 9.5 to provide
mobile users the following features:
- Support for full desktop Web content with
hardware-accelerated rich media, image and in-page video
playback;
- GPU acceleration delivering a smooth, highly-interactive
panning and zooming browsing experience with
significantly-reduced battery consumption;
- Hardware-accelerated 3D touch browsing experience with
Opera integration into NVIDIA?s OpenKODE-based composition
framework using the power of OpenGL ES 2.0.
Devices with the Opera browser powered by NVIDIA Tegra
hardware are expected to be available to consumers in 2009.