2D/3D Gaming in 2.5G and 3G Phones

24th March , 2004

US : Atsana Semiconductor, a developer of power-efficient, programmable multimedia processors for mobile devices, and Synergenix Interactive, an enabler in the mobile gaming industry, today announced a strategic partnership to enhance the gaming experience in 2.5G and 3G mobile phones and to reduce the time to market in regional territories around the world.

The mophun™ games engine by Synergenix, including OpenGL® ES and JSR 184 compliant modules, is now available on Atsana’s media processors, providing exceptional gaming performance. By offering a game-centric SDK and APIs, it shortens the game developer’s time to market and allows for the creation of high performance, high quality, true binary cross platform portable 2D and 3D games. The mophun™ platform optimized to run on Atsana’s media processors provides handset developers with over 150 game titles, offering exceptionally high performance and quality gaming for their next generation feature phones.

“Combining mophun™ with Atsana’s new J2211 multimedia processor gives ODMs and OEMs a competitive edge,” said Göran Sander, Business Area Director – Handsets at Synergenix. “The embedded nature of the J2211 makes integration simple. Having the mophun™ Run Time Engine (RTE) execute on Atsana’s massively parallel architecture provides a significant performance boost that is achieved at extremely low power consumption. Atsana also has impressive traction in regional markets so the channel opportunity is strong.”

The J2211 by Atsana is a low power, high performance, fully programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) that functions as a companion processor to handset baseband processors. The J2211 features Atsana’s massively parallel Array Processor as well as an ARM9 RISC processor, providing a powerful yet fully programmable solution for video, image audio and graphics processing.

“The global mobile phone industry has widely adopted mophun™ with gaming applications in dozens of handset models,” said Vivek Chhabra, Head of Software Partnerships & Alliances at Atsana. “The mophun™ games engine optimized to run on the J2211 accelerates the mobile gaming experience by offering high performance, high quality games in real-time without battery drain. The integrated solution combined with a wide variety of regional content allows the handset manufacturers & mobile operators to offer a more competitive gaming experience with a reduced time to market.”

About Atsana Semiconductor
Atsana Semiconductor Corp. is a leader in the development of fully programmable, low-power consumption multimedia processors for wireless devices such as handsets, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and network cameras. The semiconductor company’s array processing technology enables the creation of multimedia wireless devices that consume two to three times less power than solutions offered today. In addition, Atsana’s processor enables better quality video encoding, supports higher resolution, and is easily scalable and programmable to support a myriad of multimedia applications and standards. Atsana is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada and has operations in Silicon Valley, California.

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