NVIDIA Joins Symbian Platinum Program to Support Growing Smartphones Market

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NVIDIA Corporation has announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the expanding market for cell phones based on Symbian OS. As a Platinum Partner, NVIDIA will extend its family of GoForce media processors to the Symbian ecosystem, ensuring compatibility and stability with smartphones based on the Symbian OS. This partnership reflects NVIDIA's commitment to bringing industry-leading graphics and multimedia capabilities to the smartphone market and its intent to build upon its mobile strategy.

Key Takeaways:

  • NVIDIA has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for cell phones based on Symbian OS.
  • As a Platinum Partner, NVIDIA will extend its family of GoForce media processors to the Symbian ecosystem, ensuring compatibility and stability with smartphones based on the Symbian OS.
  • The partnership reflects NVIDIA's commitment to bringing industry-leading graphics and multimedia capabilities to the smartphone market and its intent to build upon its mobile strategy.
  • NVIDIA offers a robust suite of handheld technologies that enhance the visual display capabilities, improve connectivity, and minimize chip and system-level power consumption.
  • By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, NVIDIA can further expand its GoForce media processing solutions and strengthen its relationships with users, application developers, smartphone manufacturers, and carriers/network operators.
  • The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS.
  • As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team.

Statistics:

  • NVIDIA is a market leader in visual computing technology with a broad market reach and incorporation into a wide variety of computing platforms.
  • NVIDIA employs over 1,800 people worldwide.
  • Symbian OS is the global industry standard operating system for smartphones.
  • There are over 100 million smartphones based on Symbian OS worldwide.
  • The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies such as Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson.

Sources:

  • NVIDIA Corporation press release, March 22, 2002
  • Symbian Ltd press release, no date available
  • NVIDIA Corporation website, no date available
  • Symbian Ltd website, no date available