Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has served as a launchpad for some of the most exciting innovations in graphics technologies from Imagination. In 2014 we disclosed the in-depth architectural details for the PowerVR GX6650 GPU and the way we’ve designed its 192 ALU cores while 2015 saw the
Graphics on mobile devices have seen an incredible evolution in the last decade. Imagination revolutionized the handheld industry in 2001 by launching a family of PowerVR GPUs designed for the very first wave of smartphones. Since then, we’ve set the standard for ultimate performance and energy efficiency with
Last month I sent out a message on Twitter announcing that the latest PowerVR Wizard ray tracing GPU test silicon had taped out, based on Imagination’s reference design and the IC Compiler™ II place and route solution from Synopsys. Our #PowerVR ray tracing GPU has finally taped out
We have some great news: Imagination is organizing a full developer day packed with interesting sessions at GDC 2015; called idc15, it will be held on March 3rd inside room 302 of the South Hall and features talks and expert panel discussions aimed at helping you boost your
For the past month, many of you have been asking on social media or in the comments section of our blog for a video recording of our hybrid rendering demo. Since some of our readers have missed our GDC 2014 sessions or didn’t get a chance to drop
We’re delighted that the design team for our PowerVR Series2NX Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) has been honoured with a prestigious British Engineering Excellence Award (BEEA). The BEEAs were established in 2009 to demonstrate the high calibre of engineering design and innovation in the
After a period out of the spotlight, ray tracing technology has recently come back into focus, taking up a lot of column inches in the tech press. The primary reason is because graphics cards for the PC gaming market have
Amazon, the internet shopping giant, announced earlier this week the latest version of its media streaming device, the Fire TV Stick 4K. First released in 2016, the Fire TV stick brings catch-up streaming services to any TV with an HDMI
Once, when you were looking to develop a mobile application with complex graphics, in most cases you immediately thought of OpenGL ES. In this blog post we’ll be discussing the benefits of Vulkan and why you really ought to consider using this
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