HI, Nvidia to form 3D games on mobile phone alliance

HI Corp. and Nvidia Inc. have agreed to form a worldwide alliance for advanced interactive 3D games on mobile communication devices. Providing developers with Nvidia's hardware solutions for mobile 3D acceleration combined with HI's Mascot Capsule Micro3D platform will enable a new generation in mobile gaming.

The plan companies to cooperate in the porting and marketing of the Mascot Capsule Engine Micro3D Edition on Nvidia's newly-announced GoForce architecture. The goal is to enable the content development community with the necessary tools and performance to take leading PC and console titles into the mobile environment.

Through this alliance, HI is anticipated to bring support for the newly-adopted Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME (M3G) to Nvidia's GoForce, providing developers with a fully standards-compliant development platform for mobile gaming. Every mobile device employing Nvidia GoForce technology will also be able to utilize the Mascot Capsule Engine Micro3D Edition, making it easy for existing game developers and for the 30M handsets already enabled with Mascot Capsule to take advantage of the power of GoForce.