ST-Ericsson building support for Adobe Flash Player10.1 on its smart-phone chips

ST Micro and ST-Ericsson are working together with Adobe to accelerate Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR on their chipsets with multimedia and graphics capabilities, used in smartphones and connected digital-home devices.

The Open Screen Project aims to deliver a runtime environment for both web content and standalone applications across all devices leveraging the Flash Platform.

"By providing built-in support for one of the most commonly-used rich-media technology on the internet, enabling video streaming and other highly-popular web services, we are taking the smartphone browsing experience to another level," said Marc Cetto, Senior Vice President and head of 3G and Multimedia division at ST-Ericsson. "Our highly power-efficient smartphone platforms are well suited to delivering the engaging Flash enabled multimedia experience that people have become accustomed to on PCs."

"Flash extends consumers' multimedia experience by adding to the broadcast services' seamless access to internet content and applications," said Laurent Remont, Director of Advanced System Architecture, Home Entertainment and Displays, STMicroelectronics. "Our collaboration with Adobe will deliver implementations of Flash for the digital home on current and recently announced set-top box and digital TV chips, enabling consumers to view on-demand high-definition video, 3D graphics, browse the full web, and interact with rich applications on their televisions."

"ST-Ericsson and ST are set to play a critical role in bringing the full Flash based Web experience to the hundreds of millions of people worldwide now using smartphones netbooks and other mobile devices, said Bryant Macy, senior director, Product Marketing, Platform Business at Adobe. As the smartphone and consumer electronics markets open up to the more than two million Flash developers, I am sure we will see another boost of creativity and innovation that will further enrich consumers' web experience."