Tag: automotive

You know that future everyone keeps talking about – the one with powerful AI, reusable space rockets and flying cars. Well, it’s sort of happening. We have intelligent speakers that can tell us the weather, new rockets launching and (mostly) coming back to earth and in China, manned tests of passenger drones are taking place. So while some may be … Continued

As we do every year, earlier at the start of January Imagination attended the CES 2018 show in Las Vegas. Here we take a look back at some of the overall trends that we saw coming out of the show. With the rise of car-tech and autonomous driving, many believe that CES is now an automotive show before anything else. … Continued

In the early 1980s, TV was full of exciting new fantasies about how technology would change our lives. From digital watches that would make us invisible (Gemini Man, a tech sadly still not here), through vehicular fantasies like Airwolf, to the full body augmentation of the Bionic Man/Woman. None captured my imagination more than Knight Rider, in which David Hasselhoff’s … Continued

Over the past few days in the UK government broke the news that from 2040 new petrol or diesel powered vehicles would be banned. It’s a bold move that indicates that our shiny new cleaner energy future is not just going to remain on the horizon forever; we’re actually going to get there, even if it takes legislation to get … Continued

The automotive market is one of the most exciting sectors in the technology ecosystem, and as a result the industry is constantly fluctuating and evolving in order to keep at the forefront of new technology. This means the underlying hardware which powers the system must not only deliver great performance but must also be versatile. The automotive industry is a … Continued

These days we seem to take it for granted how powerful and sophisticated computers have become. We can talk to our phones and our Bluetooth speakers and they will respond with context-aware information; in certain cars you can take your hands off the wheel and let yourself be carried down the road by electronics, and we can share messages and … Continued

Imagination Technologies is a company with a vision to help create great, innovative products that will change the world. We are always thinking ahead to see how we can best deliver that future – a future that’s bright, bold and empowering. At the core of this vision are our employees who are key in bringing this future to fruition and … Continued

HMI design for embedded systems At Embedded World in Nuremberg this week, the team from Socionext and Socionext Embedded Software Austria are on hand in the Imagination stand (#4-629) to demonstrate the new SC1810 SoC, which uses a PowerVR Series8XE GPU. This first integration of a PowerVR Series8XE GPU in a sampled SoC represents a further evolution in both features … Continued

Update: We have now announced our first Furian-based core: the PowerVR Series8XT GT8525: find out more details here. Things move fast in the world of graphics. We announced the first PowerVR Rogue licensable GPU IP in 2012, a year after revealing the microarchitecture, and we’d been working on it for some time before that. Six years on from peeling back … Continued

The PowerVR architecture is quick to support the latest technologies, and the Vulkan API is a case in point. Vulkan is a modern API that enables developers to gain ‘low-level’ access to underlying graphics hardware, ensuring that the performance of that hardware can be maximised. Any apps displaying large volumes of data such as navigation apps are a great use … Continued