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Next generation iPad / iPhone GPU licensed to other manufacturers

by Matt Tinsley (Jun 15th, 2011)

Imagination Technologies, makers the PowerVR graphics processor found in the iPhone and iPad, has announced that its next generation PowerVR Series 6 architecture has been licensed by six lead partners: ST-Ericson, Texas Instruments and MediaTek. The remaining three partners are yet to be ...

Rumor: The iPhone's next GPU

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2010)

The Graphics Processing Unit, or GPU, of any modern computing device is an important piece of hardware that offloads 3D graphics rendering from the main processor. At CES 2010 last week, chip manufacturer Imagination Technologies may have spilled the beans on the GPU for the next generation of ...

Does Imagination license spell HD-out for future iPhones?

by Michael Rose (Dec 19th, 2008)

Over at Ars Technica, Chris Foreman dives into yesterday's story that Imagination Technologies Group, developer of the PowerVR chip for mobile device displays, has a licensing agreement with Apple for its chip designs (long suspected by AppleInsider but only just confirmed) and that Apple has picked ...

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