NVIDIA and Adobe announced today they are working together to enable Adobe's Flash Player to leverage GPU acceleration for video and graphics over a range of platforms including netbooks, mobile phones, mobile Internet devices and other mobile platforms. The work is part of Open Screen Project with the goal being to accelerate Adobe Flash Player across the range of NVIDIA processors, including NVIDIA Tegra, in an effort to  deliver a rich, consistent web browsing experience across all platforms.

Adobe is heading up the Open Screen Project, a consortium of 25 industry partners dedicated to enable Web content and standalone applications across desktops, netbooks, mobile devices, televisions, and other consumer electronics that use the Adobe Flash platform.

According to Michael Rayfield, general manager, Handheld Business at NVIDIA, “Consumers don’t have to sacrifice streaming video performance on small inexpensive platforms such as netbooks. A Tegra-based platform enables the rich, smooth playback they expect from a desktop PC.”