Imagination Technologies is a company that’s probably best known for making PowerVR graphics processors, especially since selling off its MIPS processor division a few years ago. But now Imagination has announced plans to return to the CPU market. This time the company plans to design chips based on RISC-V architecture. RISC-V is an open instruction […]
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Lilbits: LG’s big, light laptops leaked, and the HTC HD2 gets new life (again)
There are plenty of thin and light laptops on the market these days. But for years it’s been hard to beat the LG Gram lineup if you want really lightweight notebooks with big displays. The current lineup includes a 17 inch notebook that weighs less than 3 pounds, a 2.5 pound model with a 15.6 […]
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Imagination IMG B-Series promises better performance and lower power consumption
Less than a year after introducing its IMG A-Series graphics processors, Imagination Technologies is moving up the alphabet with a new IMG B-Series GPU that the company says delivers up to 6 TFLOPS of compute performance. Overall the company says the new GPU designs also use up to 30 percent less power than their predecessors. While […]
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Apple signs new deal to keep licensing GPU designs from Imagination Technologies
Apple started developing graphics processors for iPhones and iPads in-house a few years ago, which came as a blow to Imagination Technologies, the company that had been designing the PowerVR GPUs Apple had been using up until then. Imagination’s stock price plummeted, the company put itself up for sale, wound up splitting itself into two […]
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Imagination launches IMG A-Series GPUs for mobile devices and much more
Up until a few years ago, Apple’s iPhone and iPad chips used PowerVR graphics licensed from Imagination Technologies. But in 2017 Apple decided to start designing its own GPUs in-house, Imagination put itself up for sale, divided into two companies and sold both off. Imagination didn’t stop designing chips though — and now the company […]
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Wave Computing acquires CPU designer MIPS
After losing its contract to supply graphics technology for use in Apple’s iPhones, Imagination Technologies put itself up for sale last year, and eventually split the company up, with Tallwood buying Imagination’s MIPS CPU design division and Canyon Bridge buying the rest of the company. Then Tallwood put MIPS up for sale again, and this […]
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Imagination Technologies finds a buyer (two actually)
This summer UK-based Imagination Technologies announced that it was putting itself up for sale after losing one of its biggest customers when Apple decided to start designing graphics technologies for its iPhones and iPads in-house. Now it looks like Imagination is splitting its assets with a California-based investment group called Tallwood acquiring Imagination’s MIPS CPU design […]
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Want to buy a chip designer? Imagination is up for sale after losing Apple deal
Imagination Technologies is a British company that’s responsible for a wide range of chip designs including MIPS processors and PowerVR graphics. In recent years, it’s the company’s graphics solutions that’s taken the spotlight, as Imagination has provided the graphics technology for every Apple iPhone released to date. But earlier this year Apple announced it will […]
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5 Comments on Apple to develop iPhone, iPad graphics processors in-house, will drop Imagination Technologies
Apple to develop iPhone, iPad graphics processors in-house, will drop Imagination Technologies
5 Comments on Apple to develop iPhone, iPad graphics processors in-house, will drop Imagination TechnologiesImagination Technologies is the company behind the PowerVR graphics used in iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs. While Imagination has other customers, Apple is the biggest… and Apple has indicated it will stop licensing tech from Imagination, which may explain why Imagination’s stock price is down more than 60 percent today. Imagination says Apple has notified the […]
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MIPS Creator Ci40 dev board hits Kickstarter for $53 and up
The MIPS Creator Ci40 is a single-board computer for developers working on projects involving Internet of Things applications and low-power MIPS processors. Imagination Technologies unveiled the board in October, and now the company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to bring the Ci40 to market. You can reserve a board with a pledge […]
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MIPS Creator CI20 dev board gets a design refresh, wireless improvements
The MIPS Creator CI20 is a single-board computer with a 1.2 GHz dual-core MIPS32 processor. Unlike some single-board computers aimed at developers, hackers, and the generally DIY-minded, the board features integrated WiFi and Bluetooth and well as Ethernet, HDMI, and SD card slots and a number of developer-friendly I/O connectors. But there’s always room for improvement, […]
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Imagination introduces free MIPSfpga for university use
Imagination Technologies designs the MIPS processor technology used in some low-power devices such as tablets and set-top-boxes. But MIPS-based processors aren’t nearly as popular as chips based on ARM or x86 designs. An unusual program Imagination is introducing could help change that. The company has announced that it’s offering universities un-obfuscated access to one of its […]