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News Release from: Esmertec | Subject: Jbed Micro Edition
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 November 2002
JVM outstrips hardware acceleration
The latest version of the Esmertec Jbed Micro Edition (ME) provides full support for the new MIDP 2.0 specification.
The latest version of the Esmertec Jbed Micro Edition (ME) provides full support for the new MIDP 2.0 specification This new standard for mobile information devices delivers greater functionality than its predecessor, MIDP1.0, including better support for gaming, audio applications and security
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Jbed Micro Edition CLDC (Connected Limited Device Configuration) is Esmertec's drop-in replacement product for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) CLDC.
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The new Jbed Micro Edition CLDC virtual machine supports both the DoJa Profile 2.0 from NTT DoCoMo and the MIDP 2.0 profile, in parallel.
Esmertec's flagship product, Jbed ME, is one of the smallest and fastest JVMs for mobile phones and other resource constrained devices on the market today.
Jbed achieves its performance advantage through the use of full compilation instead of interpretation.
Furthermore, Jbed achieves this performance without the use of hardware acceleration.
"Everyone assumes that hardware acceleration is faster, but this is not the case.
The Esmertec implementation beats hardware acceleration by a factor of two and with a smaller footprint", explains Hansruedi Heeb, Chief Technology Officer at Esmertec.
"And in the mobile phone world speed is money and size is money", he adds, bringing Jbed's benefits to the point.
This plus the fact that compilation requires less memory enables deployment and unmatched execution of rich content and complex applications on small mobile devices right down to entry-level handsets.
"Not everyone will have a state of the art, high end mobile phone, therefore having an implementation which is tuned to the needs of the entry level market is particularly advantageous", said Thomas Hauser, Product Manager, Esmertec.
Esmertec is working with device manufacturers and silicon vendors to include the latest version of Jbed ME in their solutions and expects to have customer announcements before the end of the year.
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