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Imagination Hit by Apple Decision

by Bob Raikes

UK technology developer, Imagination Technologies, had a bad week as it had to announce that Apple had said that it would not use the Imagination ip in its products from 2019. Imagination has been …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Imagination Backs 4K, HDR and 120fps in Furian

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies has announced a new GPU design, the Furian which is the next step after the firm’s Rogue architecture, released in 2010, although that technology will continue to be available for lower level …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Imagination’s New PowerVR GPUs Aimed at STBs & Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies announced a a new family of GPUs, ‘Series8XE Plus’, that is intended to provide the balance of performance and fillrate needed to enable gaming and compute applications on cost-sensitive devices with displays …

Tags:GPUs| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Socionext Adopts PowerVR (and Teradici)

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies said that its PowerVR video cores have been used by Socionext, the Panasonic-Fujitsu J/V, in its SoCs. In checking this story, we spotted that in November, Socionext also announced a deal to …

Tags:Back Panel| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Action Chip Uses PowerVR and is in Nibiru Headset

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies said that Actions Semiconductor is using the PowerVR G6230 GPU core in its S900VR processor, which is an all-in-one solution designed for high-performance 360º panoramic VR devices. It is intended to provide …

Tags:AR/VR| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 43

OTOY/Imagination Tech Lower Ray Tracing Power Draw

by Tom Allen

Imagination Technologies has agreed a partnership with OTOY, a company specialising in graphics processing in the cloud. Imagination will integrate support for its PowerVR ray tracing technology into OTOY’s upcoming OctaneRender4 rendering engine, for …

Tags:Graphics Processing| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| ray tracing| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Ray Tracing for VR With Imagination and 3Glasses

by Tom Allen

Imagination Technologies is working with 3Glasses of China to promote ray tracing technology in mainstream consumer VR devices. 3Glasses produces such devices and Imagination developed the PowerVR graphics IP, which can be used for …

Tags:Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| ray tracing| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Apple Has Looked at Imagination for Acquisition

by Tom Allen

UK-based Imagination Technologies is under scrutiny as a possible acquisition for Apple, which uses its PowerVR GPUs in the iPad and iPhone. Apple already owns 8.42% of the company – its third-largest shareholder – …

Tags:Apple| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Mobile World Round-Up Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Here is our second round-up from Mobile World 2016. We cover SK Telecom, Qualcomm, Intel, Nokia, Harman, Ericsson/Volvo, Acer, Fujitsu, Sunpartner, HP, Garmin, Epson, Vuzix, Imagination, Mediatek, Neonode and DisplayLink. For more details on …

Tags:Acer| Android| Augmented Reality| Automotive| DisplayLink| Fujitsu| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Intel| MWC 2016| Nokia| Solar Panels| tablets| Touch PCs| USB Monitors| Virtual Reality

VR Takes Over GDC 2016

by Tom Allen

The Game Developers’ Conference took place in San Francisco this month. With the advances in virtual reality, this event is becoming ever more relevant to display makers. AMD estimates that it has an 83% …

Tags:AMD| Events| Game Playing| Gamer| GPUs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HTC| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 10| xBox