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Imagination Technologies has announced three Series9 PowerVR GPU series

UK-based Imagination Technologies is aiming at in-car graphics and automated driving, with GPU intellectual property designed to achieve ISO 26262 qualification. For customers seeking such qualification, Imagination is backing the IP with additional investment “in the people, resources, culture and management structure needed to support automotive solutions,” company marketing director Bryce Johnson told Electronics Weekly. “Our testing, documentation and built-in hardware ...

Imagination Technologies has announced a software design kit (SDK) for developing neural networks on its PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs). It is aimed at convolutional neural networks, and both an API and SDK are included, as well as an image for flashing on to an Acer Chromebook R13 for hardware development. Future versions of the API and SDK library will allow ...

Imagination Technologies has announced the next generation of its PowerVR graphics processor architecture for mobile applications – phones, tablets and headsets. Called Furian, in 8XT guise it will produce 35% more Gflop/mm2 and a 80% improvement in fill-rate/mm2 compared with the top-end implementations of the existing (Rogue 7XT) architecture – both on the same semiconductor process and clocked at the ...

Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.

Green Hills Software is targeting the design of secure autonomous vehicles with its  Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and  Multivisor virtualisation software which now supports the Renesas’ R-Car H3 system-on-chip (SoC). The 64-bit secure virtualisation platform was partially developed with the specific capabilities of the R-Car H3 in mind. The platform meets the functional safety requirements defined in ISO 26262 ...

Imagination Technologies has released a family of PowerVR graphics processors for cost-sensitive markets. Called Series8XE, they “deliver the best performance/mm2 while incorporating hardware virtualisation, multi-domain security, and support for APIs including OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan 1.0″, said the firm – adding that the Vulcan claim is an estimate based on the published Khronos specification. The cores are up to 25% ...

Intended for wearables and low-end phones, PowerVR G6020 is Imagination Technologies’ smallest Series6XE graphics processor. Designed to deliver 720p video at 60frame/s, the graphics processor (GPU) is OpenGLES 3.0-capable, and offers 400-500Mpixel/s (2.2mm2 silicon on 28nm) as well as 12.8-16Gflop (16bit) at 400-500MHz. Embedded and IoT applications are also foreseen. “Think trip computers for affordable cars, smart appliances inside the ...

Imagination Technologies has announced the next generation of the PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs). Called both PowerVR Series 7 and Rogue 7, up to 1.5Tflop of processing power is available from 512 32bit cores in its maximum configuration. Throughput per ‘cluster’ in the Series7XT GPUs is 60% up on previous generation Series6XT clusters at the same clock speed. Compared with Series6, ...

MediaTek’s latest MT8135 SoC is the “first publicly announced mobile SoC enabling heterogeneous multi-processing (HMP) utilising asymmetric processor configurations,” so says Imagination Technologies, which has its PowerVR Series6 ’Rogue’ graphics processor implemented in the SoC. The significance of this is that true heterogeneous multi-processors support dynamic configuration of the operating modes of CPUs, GPUs and other processors in the system, to optimise power consumption under workload conditions. “Within ...