Getting Into IoT Is A RISC-V Business Move
Imagination Technologies is hoping to snag some marketshare from ARM with their new APXM-6200 RISC-V CPU, designed to power all those smart appliances we love to hate. The cores of the APXM-6200…
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Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing
The Khronos Group has ratified and published several provisional extensions that add ray tracing to the Vulkan API. These extensions are open, cross-platform, and cross-vendor. Its structure is like DirectX...
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PowerVR Series3NX Neural Network Accelerator Announced
Imagination Technologies has just announced the Series3NX line of Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) architectures. These products are designs that can be licensed by system-on-a-chip (SoC) manufacturers to include in their designs. The…
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PowerVR 9XEP, 9XMP, and 9XTP GPUs Launched
Imagination Technologies has just launched three new GPUs: the PowerVR 9XEP, the PowerVR 9XMP, and the PowerVR 9XTP. The 9XEP is designed for casual gaming and UI, the 9XMP is designed...
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Imagination Technologies Announces PowerVR 2NX NNA
Imagination Technologies is known to develop interesting, somewhat offbeat hardware, such as GPUs with built-in ray tracers. In this case, the company is jumping into the neural network market with...
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Imagination Technologies Agrees to Canyon Bridge Offer
Canyon Bridge, a private investment LLC and a believable codename for an Intel processor architecture, has just reached an agreement with Imagination Technologies to acquire most of their...
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Imagination Technologies Pursues Acquisition Talks
According to a press release from Imagination Technologies, the group has been approached by multiple entities who are interested in acquiring them. None of these potential buyers have been mentioned...
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Imagination PowerVR Ray Tracing with UE4 & Vulkan Demo
Imagination Technologies has published another video that demonstrates ray tracing with their PowerVR Wizard GPU. The test system, today, is a development card that is running on Ubuntu, and powering…
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Podcast #444 – ASUS Motherboard, NVIDIA Quadro, AMD ReLive, DDR5
PC Perspective Podcast #444 - 04/6/17 Join us for an ASUS Z270 Motherboard, NVIDIA Quadro, AMD ReLive, DDR5 and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access...
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Imagination Technologies Releases Apple GPU Loss Statement
This morning, Imagination Technologies Group released a press statement announcing that Apple Inc. intends to phase out their technology in 15 to 24 months. Imagination has doubts that Apple could...
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It’s all in your Imagination; Apple is not on an expensive shopping trip
Various sites have been abuzz this morning with rumours of Apple seeking to acquire the manufacturer of the PowerVR graphics chips they utilize, Imagination Technologies. Apple has now flatly...
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MWC 16: Imagination Technologies Ray Tracing Accelerator
For the last couple of years, Imagination Technologies has been pushing hardware-accelerated ray tracing. One of the major problems in computer graphics is knowing what geometry and material corresponds to a specific…
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The IP licensing business model. A love story.
Alexandru Voica works for Imagination Technologies. His...
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HSA Version 1.0 arrived today
We have been talking about the HSA foundation since 2013, a cooperative effort by AMD, ARM, Imagination, Samsung, Qualcomm, MediaTek and TI to design a heterogeneous memory architecture to allow GPUs,…
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GDC 15: Imagination Technologies Shows Vulkan Driver
Possibly the most important feature of upcoming graphics APIs, albeit the least interesting for enthusiasts, is how much easier driver development will become. So many decisions and tasks that once laid on…
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Imagination Launches PowerVR GT7900, “Super-GPU” Targeting Consoles
As a preview to announcements and releases being made at both Mobile World Congress (MWC) and the Game Developers Summit (GDC) next week, Imagination Technologies took the wraps off...
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Intel Sheds Its Remaining Stake In Imagination Technologies
Update: Currency exchange rates have been corrected. I'm sorry for any confusion! Intel Foundation is selling off its remaining stake in UK-based Imagination Technologies (IMG.LN). According to JP Morgan, Intel is...
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Apple A8 Die Shot Released (and Debated)
First, Chipworks released a dieshot of the new Apple A8 SoC (stored at archive.org). It is based on the 20nm fabrication process from TSMC, which they allegedly bought...
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