On the mobile side, we have tablet processors like AMD's Z-60 APU and upcoming Valley View SoCs from Intel that would benefit from GPU accelerated Java by being able to process data faster and ...

Sun has backed Java Card technology for years; the company estimates 400 million have been shipped, more than half of that for use in mobile phones' subscriber identity module cards.

Close to 6 billion Java Card-based devices are deployed each year, Oracle says, making it the leading software platform for running security services on smart cards and "secure elements," which are ...

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