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There's Lockheed Martin demonstrating its space-based 5G Satellite Base Station, Siemens buying Insight EDA, a mems-based loudspeaker that uses ultrasonics to reproduce bass notes, Imec's on-line tool that quantifies the environmental impact of IC manufacturing, and unwelcome news of redundancies at Imagination Technologies...  

Qualcomm is to create RISC-V based silicon for wearables, working with Google to optimise it for Google’s Wear OS. “We are excited to extend our work with Qualcomm Technologies and bring a RISC-V wearable solution to market,” said Google general manager Bjorn Kilburn. Leading up to this, the companies will continue to invest in Snapdragon Wear platforms for the Wear ...

Imagination Technologies has announced a series of smaller GPUs, but has not publicly released any technical details. Called CXM, at least some of them support 4K resolution, and at least some support 10bit RGBA and YUV ‘HDR (high dynamic range) operation. “CXM GPUs boast nearly 50% more performance in the same silicon area than IMG BXM cores,” according to the ...

Winner Imagination Technologies – PowerVR SDK   The PowerVR SDK (software development kit) is for developers starting to create applications for PowerVR hardware. It can be used across the mobile and automotive industry to improve performance with lower power usage. The judges commented on the fact that the SDK enables the potential of mobile raytracing, “opening an exciting avenue of ...

Imagination Technologies is aiming at phone-based gaming with scalable GPU intellectual property that can implement hardware ray-tracing. Called IMG DXT, and part of a planned ‘D-Series’ family, the GPUs “offers mobile device manufacturers the chance to integrate ray tracing into their SoCs, to match their design goals from premium to mainstream devices”, according to the company. The GPU scales from ...

Imagination Technologies has picked software services company MulticoreWare, which specialises in computer vision, sensor data and AI processing, as a software development partner to optimise algorithms on Imagination GPUs. “MulticoreWare is utilising our IP for general-purpose GPU applications. By working together, we can offer our customers an optimised PowerVR deployment,” said Imagination product director Gilberto Rodriguez. As a demonstration, the ...

As Imagination prepares to IPO, it  has admitted to multiple accounting errors. Errors described as “prior year errors” worth £8.7 million were found in Imagination’s 2020 accounts. The accounts also failed to report a £711,000 share bonus scheme for execs started in 2020, which gave execs shares in its Chinese owner. In an IPO of Imagination at a valuation of more ...

Alibaba Group’s T-Head chip design company has adopted Imagination Technologies B-Series GPU and Series3NX neural network accelerator for an artificial intelligence IoT SoC. The Hertfordshire company joined T-Head’s ‘Wujian platform alliance’ in 2019 . “Imagination has been collaborating with T-head to build a heterogeneous GPU-NPU architecture based on Xuantie C910,” said Imagination. Yesterday, Wujian 600 platform was unveiled at the ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Ana Claudia Reis, a Software Engineering Manager at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Ana is part of the application programming ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Daniel Ivanescu, a Graduate Software Engineer at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Daniel studied Computer Hardware and Software Engineering ...