HP Inks Agreement with Delphi to Embed Chai Software in Mobile Product
23 May 2000
HP Inks Agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems to Embed Chai Software in Mobile Multimedia Product
PALO ALTO, Calif.--May 22, 2000--and Strong Support Environment
Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a seven-year, multimillion-dollar licensing agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems to embed HP's ChaiVM virtual machine for Java(TM) applications and ChaiAWT graphics display software in a mobile multimedia product now under development.
Delphi Automotive Systems, , headquartered in Troy, Mich., is a world leader in transportation and mobile electronics components and systems technology. Its mobile multimedia product line focuses on developing and marketing mobile products that provide advanced communication, information and entertainment systems for light- and heavy-duty vehicle applications. Marketed under the Communiport brand, Delphi offers advanced audio smart radios, telematics and rear-seat entertainment systems that provide a host of services, including navigation services, Internet access, e-mail, voice memo, integrated hands-free telephone, address books, voice recognition, DVD players and other mobile office and entertainment features.
"We are very pleased that Delphi has selected Chai technology for incorporation into a leading-edge mobile multimedia product," said Jacques Clay, vice president of HP's Personal Appliances and Services Organization. "Our goal is to provide a powerful, complete solution that will save development time and manufacturing costs, freeing our customers to focus on innovation at the application level."
Because of the minimal hardware support requirements for applications running on the HP ChaiVM, a huge variety of mobile communications and multimedia applications can now be supported cost-effectively in the automotive market. Examples of such applications include telematics systems that reach specialized call centers with cellular voice communications combined with data from global positioning satellite systems; rear-seat entertainment systems that access Web-based full-motion video and streaming audio applications; and advanced Web-based navigation systems that support voice-recognition and text-to-speech capabilities.
HP's ChaiFreezeDry technology delivers a compelling advantage to developers seeking to build appliances that can host Java applications with minimal memory resources. The technology is both a new format for representing Java class files more efficiently and a new class loader that transforms standard Java class files into the new format without removing any information from the files. By consolidating and running Java applications in a concentrated form, ChaiFreezeDry technology reduces the memory footprint required by an application by up to 50 percent.
The HP TurboChai ahead-of-time compiler also plays a critical role in providing the strong application performance advantage for the HP ChaiVM virtual machine, enabling up to a twenty-fold speed increase for Java applications. The compiler is designed to take advantage of all the powerful resources available on an application-development system to optimize code performance, while the TurboChai run-time environment is tightly integrated with the HP ChaiVM virtual machine to provide optimal performance. The result is Java execution performance that is close to applications written in C or C++.
The Chai Appliance Platform is an integrated suite of software products designed to power the next generation of memory-constrained intelligent appliances. The embedded software platform extends e-services from enterprise systems to intelligent appliances and provides device manufacturers with more functionality and the ability to customize, allowing products to get to market faster and at a lower cost.
A key component of the Chai Appliance Platform is HP's ChaiVM, a small-footprint, scalable environment for running Java applications on intelligent devices. ChaiVM offers superior Java application performance using HP's TurboChai compiler and the smallest memory footprint using HP's ChaiFreezeDry technology. Other components of the platform include an embedded Web-based application server, connectivity to e-services, device manageability via HP OpenView Network Node Manager, a mobile database, an XML microbrowser, a toolkit for creating graphical displays, and standards-based spontaneous networking.