Fathammer and Texas Instruments Announce Collaboration to Develop Cutting-Edge 3D Graphics For 2.5G, 3G Mobile Devices With TI's OMAP Processors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2002 SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002 Fathammer recently announced an agreement with Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Incorporated (TI) to bring high-performance, desktop quality 3D graphics to 2.5 and 3G mobile devices that use TI's OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) (TM) wireless application processors. By optimizing to the high-performance and power efficiency of TI's OMAP processors, Fathammer's X-Forge(TM) 3D game engine provides game developers with the ability to deliver high frame rate, console-quality 3D games with low memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold on a wide variety of wireless PDAs, Smartphones and handheld game devices. Fathammer showcased X-Forge running on TI's OMAP processor platform at TI's booth at the recent 3GSM World Congress tradeshow in Cannes, France, Feb. 19 - 22. A sample game built with X-Forge is playable on the digital signal processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
The collaboration with TI, the market leader in wireless technology, highlights Fathammer's success in bringing high quality, real-time 3D graphics to a wide variety of mobile devices. X-Forge is optimized for specific mobile technologies and device configurations so that the content developer can focus on creating great games rather than the vast complexity of the mobile technology landscape. "Fathammer's goal is to bring the best 3D gaming experience to all types of mobile devices," said Brian Bruning, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Fathammer. "The X-Forge technology perfectly demonstrates the power and flexibility of TI's OMAP processors by enabling high-quality 3D gaming on many new mobile devices. We're excited to be collaborating with TI to deliver the next-generation mobile entertainment experience." "Fathammer's X-Forge engine is an ideal application to demonstrate the multimedia processing capabilities of TI's high-performance, power efficient OMAP platform," said Paul Werp, worldwide marketing director for TI's OMAP platform. "Our collaboration with Fathammer ensures that 2.5 and 3G wireless devices deliver the compelling 3D gaming experience that today's consumers demand." TI's OMAP family of application processors delivers the best performance and ultra-low power consumption to enable real-time communication-based applications. It is ideally suited to the development of wireless multimedia applications in key areas such as audio, mixed media messaging, video, speech security, m-commerce, gaming and location-based services See mobile positioning. . Fathammer is a member of TI's OMAP Developer Network, a group of software developers writing wireless applications for mobile Internet devices. OMAP developers enjoy a variety of tools and support to enable rapid application development for leading operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and programming languages. OMAP developers also benefit from TI's fully open OMAP processor platform, which has been selected by Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, Palm, Sendo, HP, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing and others for their 2.5 and 3G wireless devices. For more information about the OMAP Developer Network, please visit www.ti.com/sc/omapdevelopers. About Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. In addition to Semiconductors, the company's businesses also include sensors and controls and educational and productivity solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing or sales operations in more than 25 countries. More information is located on the World Wide Web at: http://www.ti.com About Fathammer Fathammer is the leading developer of real-time 3D graphics and game technology for mobile devices. Fathammer's X-Forge(TM) APIs and tools suite allows device manufacturers and game developers to bring advanced console quality 3D games and other rich 3D content to a wide range of mobile devices, even those with limited processing power and memory requirements. More information can be found at http://www.fathammer.com Note to Editors: Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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