Java Hits the Road: Accelerators in Mobile Applications

The rapid development of palm-top computing and digital cellular telephony is providing an opportunity for lightweight information appliances. Whether delivering information or mobile computing, these appliances will become indispensable through their capability to access the Internet from any place via telephone and modem or via a wireless connection. Java, one of the important Internet-enabling languages, is not directly supported by any microprocessor architecture that has seen significant volume shipments. A microprocessor can become Java-enabled via a program, a Java Virtual Machine interpreter, sometimes sped up by a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler, or by hardware which may also include some support software.

"Java Hits the Road: Accelerators in Mobile Applications" covers calendar years 2000-2005 history and forecast of shipments of Java VM Intellectual Property via cores, software and combinations of the two. The report also covers battery-operated computing devices, browsers and Internet-enabled digital cellular telephones. The report covers battery-operated devices because these will require minimal power consumption, lowest cost of bill-of-materials and minimal physical dimensions. The report provides world-wide unit shipments and revenue between the years 2000-2005. It also positions the business of Java acceleration within the context of microprocessor cores, their royalties and the creation of architecture extensions that support Java.

• Executive Summary
  
• Marketing Manager’s Summary
  
• Methodology
  
• Nomenclature
  
• Introduction
  
• Target Markets
  
  
  
  • Fitting Solutions to Applications
    
    
    
    • Software VM
      
    • Hardware VM
      
    
    
  • The Applications
    
  
  
• Accelerator Configurations
  
  
  
  • Host Configuration
    
  • Coprocessor Configuration
    
  • Instruction Path Interpreter Configuration
    
  • ISA Extension Configuration
    
  • Accelerators
    
  
  
• Business Conditions
  
  
  
  • The Scenario
    
    
    
    • Existing Leader
      
    • Perceptions
      
    
    
  • Integration Architectures
    
  • Channels
    
  • Roadmap Strategy
    
  
  
  
• The Forecast
  
  
  
  • Background
    
  • The Big Picture
    
  • Unit Shipments by Java VM Implementation
    
  • Java VM Revenues
    
  
  
• Summing Up
  

• Table 1. Worldwide Java-enabled shipments, history and forecast
  
• Table 2. Total Java-enabled unit shipments
  
• Table 3. Worldwide by VM implementation
  
• Table 4. Worldwide Java VM by type of revenue
  

• Figure 1. Java VM accelerator/interpreter concept
  
• Figure 2. Host configuration concept
  
• Figure 3. Coprocessor configuration concept
  
• Figure 4. Instruction path interpreter concept
  
• Figure 5. ISA extension concept
  
• Figure 6. Worldwide Java-enabled unit shipments
  
• Figure 7. Java VM interpreter, accelerator, and ISA extensions market shares
  
• Figure 8. Worldwide by VM implementation
  
• Figure 9. Worldwide licensing and royalties