Finnish company known for its low-power GPU designs. Stung by Apple’s abandonment and then spectacular showing with its M1 Pro SoC and threatened by Qualcomm with its Arm-based Nuvia SoC that is targeting Windows, Intel needed to shore up its low-power capabilities and offerings. Taking a page out of Arm’s big.LITTLE game book, Intel squeezed a bunch of watts out of their … [Read more...] about Intel acquires Siru talent and IP
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Imagination launches IMG A-Series
The GPU of Everything and the fastest GPU IP. Imagination Technologies announced the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series. Claiming its IMG A-Series is the fastest GPU IP ever released, the company says it is designed to be The GPU of Everything, citing multiple markets, from automotive, AIoT, and computing through to DTV/STB/OTT, mobile and … [Read more...] about Imagination launches IMG A-Series
AMD and Samsung announce GPU strategic partnership
Samsung to integrate custom AMD Radeon graphics IP into future SoCs for mobile applications. Back in 2009, AMD, after recently acquiring ATI, decided to get out of the mobile phone GPU business and sold the IP and other assets to Qualcomm (for $65 million). Qualcomm hired most of AMD’s group in Finland (that came out of Bitboys) and shortly thereafter introduced the Snapdragon … [Read more...] about AMD and Samsung announce GPU strategic partnership