Imagination Technologies
December is here, and with it comes several technical summits ahead of the holiday break. The most notable of which this week is the annual RISC-V summit, which is being put on by the Linux Foundation and sees the numerous (and ever increasing) parties involved in the open source ISA gather to talk about the latest products and advancements in the RISC-V ecosystem. The summit always tends to feature some new product announcements, and this year is no different, as Imagination Technologies is at the show to provide details on their first RISC-V CPU cores, along with announcing their intentions to develop a full suite of CPU cores over the next few years. The company, currently best known for their PowerVR GPU lineup, has...
Vulkan 1.0 Specification Released: Drivers & Games Inbound
Back in August of 2014, Khronos announced the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. The industry consortium, responsible for overseeing a number of major cross-platform GPU standards such as OpenGL and...
40 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2016
CEO of Imagination Technologies Steps Down
Sir Hossein Yassaie, chief executive officer of Imagination Technologies, has stepped down as of Monday, Feburary 8th. Mr. Yassaie served as Imagination’s CEO since 1998 and joined the company...
23 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2016
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7XT Plus Family - Rogue Gets Improved Compute
A regular sight at CES at most years is a new PowerVR graphics announcement from the crew over at Imagination, and this year is no exception. Shortly before CES...
35 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2016
Imagination Announces New P6600, M6200, M6250 Warrior CPUs
Today Imagination launches three new MIPS processor IPs: One in the performance category of Warrior CPUs, the P6600 and two embedded M-class core, the M6200 and M6250. Warrior P6600 Starting off...
15 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/10/2015
HSA Foundation Update: More HSA Hardware Coming Soon
When AMD set about bringing their CPU/GPU fusion initiative to life with the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) earlier this decade, one point AMD made early-on was that while they...
20 by Ryan Smith on 10/6/2015
Spot the CPU: Russian Baikal-T1 SoC Goes MIPS
If you keep your ear to the ground with the technology press, you can’t help but notice a few news stories hitting the ground when it comes to Russia...
27 by Ian Cutress on 5/27/2015
Imagination Announces OmniShield: Hardware Security Zones For MIPS + PowerVR Ecosystem
Though it would be unfair to state that there was a point where device security never mattered, it’s safe to say that the interest in security from hardware manufacturers...
4 by Ryan Smith on 5/20/2015
Imagination Announces Free MIPSfpga Design For Academia
While we admittedly don’t cover much in the way of education/university-related announcements, this one from Imagination this morning caught my eye. As part of Imagination’s ongoing university relations program, the...
16 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2015
Imagination Launches New Low Power Wireless IP: Ensigma Whisper
Today Imagination is launching a new set of licensable wireless intellectual property (IP) called 'Ensigma Whisper' to complement its portfolio of other SoC IPs. This announcement gives Imagination a...
9 by Stephen Barrett on 4/15/2015
Imagination Announces PowerVR G6020 GPU & PowerVR Series 5 Video Encoder
With Mobile World Congress 2015 now in full swing, Imagination Technologies is taking to the show today to announce a couple of new additions to the PowerVR family of...
3 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2015
Imagination Creator CI20 Now Shipping With Spec Bump & Kodi Support
Imagination has sent along word that the Creator CI20 we covered in some detail late last year is now shipping to North America and Europe. For those unfamiliar with...
20 by Stephen Barrett on 2/3/2015
Imagination Launches Creator CI20 Development Board
Last week Imagination launched the Creator CI20 development board. This device is quite interesting because of the combination of architecture, features, developer support, form factor, and pricing. It also...
27 by Stephen Barrett on 12/8/2014
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7 GPUs - Series7XT & Series7XE
Taking place this week are Imagination Technologies’ Chinese idc14 and Imagination Summits developer events. While Imagination holds these events in multiple countries over the year, the Chinese event is...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2014
Imagination Posts PowerVR Rogue Specification Summary
Being in the business of licensing out GPUs rather than building them directly, Imagination’s PowerVR group has always walked a fine line in how they communicate with their direct...
7 by Ryan Smith on 7/17/2014
Imagination Announces PowerVR Wizard GPU Family: Rogue Learns Ray Tracing
Taking place this week in San Francisco is 2014 Game Developers Conference. Though not necessarily a hardware show, in years past we have seen gaming-related product announcements in both...
45 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2014
Imagination's PowerVR GX6650: Competition for Mobile Kepler
Ryan touched on this in his excellent deep dive on Imagination's PowerVR Series 6XT GPU architecture earlier today, but I wanted to specifically call out the new high-end from...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/24/2014
Imagination's PowerVR Rogue Architecture Explored
In what should prove to be an extremely eventful and important day for our coverage and understanding of SoC GPUs, Imagination chosen to share more details about the inner...
95 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2014
Imagination Technologies Announces PowerVR Series6XT Architecture & GPUs
With CES taking place this week a number of mobile announcements are in the pipeline. And in what has become something of a tradition for Imagination Technologies, they are...
22 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2014
Imagination Technologies Announces Entry-Level PowerVR Series6XE GPU Family
Going hand-in-hand with Imagination’s announcement of their new PowerVR Series6XT architecture and GPUs, Imagination is also announcing a new family of entry-level GPUs to further complement the Series6 family...
0 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2014
Imagination Demonstrates PowerVR Series6 Rogue on LG's H13 SoC
I stopped by Imagination Technologies at CES 2013 and talked about their upcoming GPU IP blocks and a few recently announced SoCs, and one demo caught my eye running...
6 by Brian Klug on 1/12/2013
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