Ikivo AB, which provides open standards-based rich media solutions for mobile devices, has announced a collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets, to demonstrate accelerated vector graphics for rich media applications.
The Ikivo application, running on AMDs hardware, leverages Ikivos portfolio of Enrich tools and clients based on Mobile SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and the AMD Imageon media processor solution for OpenVG 1.0. Ikivo says the performance improvements achieved by hardware-accelerated OpenVG are expected to stimulate wider use of rich media in mobile services, and improve the user experience in applications such as Mobile TV, 2D games, media players and on-device portals.
Ikivo is excited to work with AMD on demonstrating these new opportunities to the mobile industry and content developers says Ikivo Vice President Hkan Engman. SVG is proving to be the ideal basis from which to build these new, high performance rich media solutions.  To date, 225 million SVG-enabled devices have been shipped globally. With the introduction of Ikivo Enrich, Ikivo continues its commitment to bring powerful tools and client solutions to the market.
Paul Dal Santo, Vice President and General Manager of AMDs Handheld Division adds:
Open-standard solutions like those developed by Ikivo are key to accelerating the market for media-rich mobile services. By working together to demonstrate accelerated vector graphics based on OpenVG standards, AMD and Ikivo are enabling content and application developers to create and deploy more visually compelling mobile media services for an improved consumer experience.