Nvidia, Freescale to deliver design for Windows Mobile platforms

Nvidia Corp. and Freescale Semiconductor announced they have collaborated on the design of a reference platform that will allow device manufacturers to develop multimedia-enabled products based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 platform.

The Nvidia MobileMedia Platform is a development kit containing hardware and software components, with examples for delivering DTV and video, 3D graphics for gaming and high-fidelity audio. Aiming to shorten the development of handheld devices, the solution combines the MobileMedia Platform with Freescale's i.MX applications processors.

"Having the right processing resources is key to making this software infrastructure a useful tool. By bringing together Nvidia's handheld graphics processing units and Freescale's i.MX processors in a pre-integrated reference design, OEMs and ODMs can quickly develop a new breed of converged portable devices capable of handling the most demanding multimedia requirements," said Philip Carmack, senior vice president of handheld GPUs at Nvidia.