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News Release from: Tao Group | Subject: Intent GamePlayer Application Development Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2007
Development kit offers single binary
portability
Application development kit for gamers allows rapid development of their code and deployment across all of the industry's major CPU architectures devices and market sectors.
Tao Group will launch the Intent GamePlayer ADK (Application Development Kit) at the Game Developer Conference 2007 in San Francisco The ADK enables game developers rapid development of their code and deployment across all of the industry's major CPU architectures devices and market sectors, thereby addressing the issue of fragmentation and offering immediate portability
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Intent GamePlayer provides the only available method of delivering a single binary ubiquitously right across the industry's architectures enabling game applications to run at native speed across different platforms, irrespective of the hardware and across both open and closed operating systems.
Using an array of transformational patented processes, Tao Group's Intent GamePlayer provides binary portability over the broad swathe of CPU and graphics accelerator types and across a variety of platforms beyond handsets including set-top boxes, televisions, automotive and PCs, and a provisioning mechanism to allow native content to be efficiently downloaded, installed and launched.
Francis Charig, Chief Executive Tao Group, comments: "With the increasing convergence across the market there is a greater need than ever for genuine binary portability to reduce the issue of fragmentation".
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"Binary portability is an over-used term and its meaning has become much misconstrued".
"Binary portability does not apply to multiple applications being ported across different operating environments if only one chip set is targeted".
Charig continues: "A number of companies claim to have binary portability offering up to 60 % cost savings for development and porting but this only applies to a subset of the industry, for example, smart phones".
"Tao Group offers single binary portability across different architectures and chip sets and can address the closed phone market place that offers so much potential but is largely untapped".
"Tao Group offers genuine cross-industry portability that spans feature phones as well as smart phones, set-top boxes, PC and other gaming platforms".
Charig concludes: "Reducing cross-industry fragmentation to enable lower development costs and faster, and therefore cheaper, deployment of native content is necessary to generate the full revenue potential of the new generation of mobile devices".
"The Intent GamePlayer ADK is the only Application Developer Kit which can ensure ubiquity and performance".
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