You know that future everyone keeps talking about, the one with powerful AI, reusable space rockets and flying cars. Well, it’s sort of happening. We have intelligent speakers that can tell us the weather, new rockets launching and (mostly) coming back to earth and in China, manned tests of passenger drones are taking place. By Benny Har-Even, Imagination Technologies

Over the last few years the concept of virtualisation, separating software from the hardware on which it is run, has become familiar to many. In this article, Imagination Technology describes what virtualisation is, and look how it works in PowerVR GPUs, and explain how this provides great benefits to various markets, in particular to automotive.

We’ve all experienced it: that house or commercial alarm sounding at full volume, causing a nuisance yet nobody taking it seriously because it’s become a common occurrence. One of the biggest challenges for deployment of surveillance/security cameras is the number of false alarms. By Simon Forrest, Director of Connectivity and Connected Home, Imagination Technologies.

Two neural network cores, the AX2185 and AX2145, have been announced by Imagination Technologies, and are designed to enable high-performance computation of neural networks at very low power consumption in minimal silicon area. The cores are based on Imagination’s neural network accelerator (NNA) architecture, PowerVR Series2NX, which enables ‘smartness’ to move from the cloud into edge devices, enabling greater efficiency ...

Imagination Technologies has announced PVRStudio, a fully featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that simplifies app and game development on embedded and mobile platforms. With PVRStudio 2018 Release 1, developers get a highly capable debugger for PowerVR GPUs, and can also debug programs that are executing on the CPU hardware at the same time as they are debugging programs on the GPU.

Imagination Technologies has announced a new, high performance GPU core that supports the multiple, ultra high resolution displays for cluster, Head-Up Display (HUD) and infotainment that automotive manufactures are fitting to car interiors from 2018 onwards. Thanks to an 80% fillrate density improvement over the previous generation, the Furian Architecture-based four-cluster PowerVR Series8XT GT8540 GPU can simultaneously drive up to six 4K...

In 1947 three engineers working for Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, achieved something that had a transformative impact on the technology industry, and the entire world. John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley invented the first transistor and so ushered in the silicon age. By David Harold, VP Communications, Imagination Technologies

  Richard Edgar, Director of Communications, Ensigma, from Imagination Technologies has commented on the recent news of the WiFi Krack vulnerability.

Imagination Technologies has revealed its complete, standalone hardware IP neural network accelerator, with area efficiency delivered by a specialised PowerVR architecture implementation for neural networks (NNs). Companies building SoCs for mobile, surveillance, automotive and consumer systems can integrate the new PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) for high-performance computation of neural networks at very low power consum...

Stepping up the collaboration, Imagination Technologies and DENSO are working around the development of enhanced processing technologies for future in-vehicle systems. DENSO has licensed the MIPS I6500 CPU and PowerVR Series8XT GT8525 GPU from Imagination to create a test chip to exploit the capabilities of technologies such as hardware multi-threading and virtualisation for automotive electronic systems including advanced driver assistance ...

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are two technologies that have the potential to significantly change the world in which we live. However, currently they are struggling to truly capture the hearts and minds of consumers and businesses. So what does the future hold? Chris Longstaff, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Technology, PowerVR, Imagination Technologies explains.

Imagination Technologies has extended its agreement with Sequans Communications S.A. for MIPS processor IP. Sequans has chosen MIPS CPUs to be at the heart of some of its LTE chip platforms that power a growing number of products shipping around the world including tablets, mobile routers, CPEs and more. Through this agreement, Sequans will develop future StreamrichLTE solutions based on MIPS.

A highly-scalable 64-bit MIPS multiprocessing solution has been announced by Imagination Technologies that has been stringently assessed and validated to meet functional safety (FuSa) compliance for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards. This makes it suitable for handling the compute-intensive tasks in emerging safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT and robotics.

  Global technology company Imagination and digital identity and credentials expert Intercede are showcasing a solution for enhanced Internet of Things (IoT) security at BT’s bi-annual Innovation 2017 event.

A trading update has been published by Imagination Technologies Group for the year to 30th April 2017, has commenced a dispute resolution procedure with Apple and announced that it intends to sell its MIPS and Ensigma businesses. The Group finished the financial year strongly with the results expected to be in line with the Board’s expectations, reflecting the positive effects of the restructuring implemented during the ...

Imagination Technologies has announced availability of a powerful development environment for its MIPS M-class and I-class CPU IP cores that includes a state-of-the-art Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) together with the low cost Bus Blaster JTAG probes – all at an unprecedented price point for professional grade tools.

  Imagination Technologies has said that Apple will no longer be licensing its technology in less than two years’ time. In a statement, Imagination says that Apple has notified the company that it’s “working on a separate, independent graphics design in order to control its products and will be reducing its future reliance on Imagination’s technology.”

A collaboration has been established between Imagination Technologies and Barco Silex through which the two companies will develop IP for secure system-on-chip (SoC) platforms based on Imagination’s MIPS family of processors. Imagination will integrate Barco Silex’ eSecure solution for embedded security into a new Trusted Element (TE) IP product. Imagination’s licensable TE will enhance security for customers’ connected de...

Imagination Technologies has unveiled its next-gen PowerVR Furian architecture, an entirely new GPU architecture designed for the evolved graphics and compute needs of next-gen consumer devices. Applications such as VR/AR and convertibles require higher graphics resolutions and frame rates, and emerging applications such as ADAS and machine intelligence require increased compute efficiency. Devices designed for these applications are often design...

Imagination Technologies has announced that the SC1810 SoC from Socionext, headquartered in Shin-Yokohama, Japan, uses a PowerVR Series8XE GPU for innovative, highly efficient graphics. The SC1810 is targeted for embedded graphical industrial and automotive applications such as demanding camera based driver information systems, cluster and further information displays such as head-up display (HUD) units, passenger displays or rear seat entertainm...