Imagination Technologies announces that Brazil’s Unitec Semiconductores has selected a MIPS M-class CPU to be used as a controller in a new power management IC that will be used in IoT smart city applications through products from Unitec Solutions, a subsidiary of Unitec Semiconductores. The MIPS microAptiv MCU IP core is a highly-efficient, compact core ideal for MCUs and embedded applications that have real-time requirements with a h...

Imagination Technologies announces that MediaTek selected its PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU to achieve higher performance and lower power graphics in its new flagship MediaTek Helio X30 processor. The full-featured 10-core Helio X30 is MediaTek’s most advanced smartphone chipset to-date, with graphics that achieve a 2.4x performance boost and power savings up to 60 percent compared to the previous generations.

Imagination Technologies announces a family of GPUs that provides the ideal balance of performance and fillrate needed to enable gaming and compute applications on cost-sensitive devices. PowerVR ‘Series8XE Plus’ GPUs expand the company’s highly successful range of entry-level and mid-range GPUs with three new IP cores optimised for gaming and compute on devices such as premium set-top boxes, mid-range smartphones, and automotiv...

Imagination Technologies announces that a PowerVR GPU is the first to achieve Khronos OpenVX 1.1 conformance. With OpenVX, developers can run fully optimised vision algorithms on the highly parallel, power-efficient PowerVR GPUs that are at the heart of many of the world’s mobile, automotive and embedded devices. OpenVX is an open, royalty-free standard for cross platform acceleration of computer vision applications.

Imagination Technologies announces that its high-performance Ensigma Explorer wireless communications IP has once again achieved Wi-Fi CERTIFIED certification. Certification was achieved this time via a reference design using the CxT200 chip which powers the Creator Ci40 development board. The Wi-Fi Alliance® certification covers Wi-Fi CERTIFIED a, b, g, n, ac, for two spatial streams; WPA – Enterprise and Personal; WPA2 – Enterpr...

The long-term partnership between Imagination Technologies and Actions Semiconductor around the MIPS architecture is to be strengthened. Actions, one of China’s leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive portable multimedia and mobile internet System on a Chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics, recently renewed its license for a range of MIPS CPUs from entry-level to high-performance. 

Imagination Technologies has announced that it has teamed with Mymo Wireless and SaberTek to provide a complete end-to-end licensable silicon IP for LTE CAT1/0.The offering provides joint customers a low-risk, cost-effective solution that is optimised for low data rate applications such as asset tracking, fleet management, security and surveillance, point of sale, health monitoring, smart metering, and a growing number of other IoT applications.

OTOY, Inc and Imagination Technologies are thrilled to announce a breakthrough hardware accelerated rendering platform that integrates Imagination’s PowerVR Ray Tracing technology with OTOY’s forthcoming OctaneRender 4 software for VR, games and cinematic content creation. OctaneRender 4, running on the current PowerVR Wizard GR6500 Ray Tracing hardware, is able to trace over 100 million rays per second in fully dynamic scenes, w...

It has been announced by Imagination Technologies that Valens has selected Imagination’s MIPS multi-threaded CPUs for its new HDBaseT Automotive chipsets. Valens’ HDBaseT Automotive solution provides infrastructure for in-vehicle connectivity, optimising system design and enhancing end-user experience. HDBaseT Automotive brings better efficiency and cost savings in several vehicle applications, such as infotainment and Advanced Driver...

Bryce Johnstone, Senior Automotive Segment Marketing Manager, Imagination Technologies, explains the importance of providing clearly understandable information as cars become increasingly complex.

Imagination Technologies and 3Glasses are collaborating to promote ray tracing technology in mass-market consumer VR devices. 3Glasses, product brand of Virtual Reality Technology, is a provider of innovative VR devices. Imagination, whose PowerVR graphics IP leads the market in technological capability, provides hardware ray tracing technology that raises the bar for ray traced graphics in consumer and mobile products to a dramatic new level.

Imagination Technologies has revealed that an STB chipset provider, ALi Corporation, is shipping a MIPS-based, H.265-capable SoC for hybrid cable, satellite, terrestrial and IP STBs. MIPS CPUs are firmly established in the STB market, shipping inside many of the most widely adopted products.

Duncan Frazer, Applications Manager, System & Software Group, Imagination Technologies, explains how the company is working with a service provider and a system integrator to help increase productivity on a blueberry farm in Portugal.

Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) has announced that Sunplus Technology’s latest audio/video processor for automotive applications features advanced graphics enabled by a PowerVR GPU from Imagination. Taiwan-based Sunplus is a leading provider of multimedia IC solutions for the home and automotive markets. Its SPHE6700 ADAS SoC is targeted at advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and around view monitor (AVM) systems.

Imagination Technologies and Intrinsic-ID are collaborating to bring even higher levels of security to products that use Imagination’s IP technologies. The first milestone is the availability of Intrinsic-ID’s leading security and authentication technology for Imagination’s MIPS M-class M5150 CPU that targets low-power applications such as M2M, IoT and embedded control. Intrinsic-ID’s Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) tec...

Imagination Technologies and Kernkonzept announce that the latest release of the open source L4Re hypervisor now supports Imagination’s OmniShield ready MIPS CPUs. The small footprint L4Re hypervisor, maintained by Kernkonzept, can take advantage of the hardware virtualisation technology in MIPS CPUs for more efficient context switching and better use of CPU cycles, leading to improved application headroom.

The latest release of the open source L4Re hypervisor, maintained by Kernkonzept, now supports Imagination’s OmniShield ready MIPS CPUs. The small footprint L4Re hypervisor can take advantage of the hardware virtualisation technology in MIPS CPUs for more efficient context switching and better use of CPU cycles, leading to improved application headroom.

Love them or hate them, 'listicles' are here to stay. Last month, TIME assembled a team of journalists to compile the ultimate tech catalogue counting down 50 of the most influential gadgets of all time. That got me walking down memory lane so I put together a list of five of the most influential products to use PowerVR. By Alexandru Voica, Senior Marketing Manager, Imagination Technologies.

Love them or hate them, 'listicles' are here to stay. Last month, TIME assembled a team of journalists to compile the ultimate tech catalogue counting down 50 of the most influential gadgets of all time. That got me walking down memory lane so I put together a list of five of the most iconic products to use MIPS. By Alexandru Voica, Senior Marketing Manager, Imagination Technologies.

At this week’s I/O conference, Google announced Daydream - a platform for high performance mobile VR built on top of Android N with optimisations called Android VR Mode.