Imagination Technologies has opened a new design centre in Timisoara, Romania. The centre will focus on IP designed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer vision. The team will initially focus on software and test activities, expanding in the future to areas such as system architecture and design.

If 2019 (and let’s be honest, the entire last decade), has taught us anything it’s that we live in an uncertain and unpredictable world. What is certain is that technology will play an integral part in just about every aspect of society in the future. Here, experts at Imagination Technologies gaze into their crystal ball and offer some insight into how technology will advance across different industries over the next 12 months. 

For any engineer worth their salt working with AR/VR/XR, product design or simulation, ray tracing is a technology with which they should become familiar. This is because it is one of the most significant advances in graphics since the beginning of 3D itself and it is about to move from the rarefied world of movies and advertising, into embedded categories like mobile, wearables and automotive as new, more efficient ways of processing ray tracing...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are going to transform our driving habits, the transportation industry and wider society. We’ll not only be able to hail a car to our doorstep and send it away once used, but AVs will also challenge the concept of car ownership and have a positive impact on the environment and congestion. However, one topic remains high on the agenda: security.  By Marc Canel, Vice President of Strategy, Security, Imagination...

Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series9XTP has been selected by Telechips, for use in its in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and vehicle cockpit solutions. The hardware virtualisation capabilities of the PowerVR architecture is capable of hosting multiple operating systems (OS) using a single GPU core with no impact on performance.

With Women in Engineering Day fast approaching, Electronic Specifier caught up with Rosanna Ashworth-Jones, Leading Developer Technology Engineer, Imagination Technologies who explained the importance of influencing people, especially parents. 

Enabling realistic image rendering using light-modelling techniques to be integrated into graphics processing units (GPUs) across mobile, automotive, server and other markets, Imagination Technologies has announced its PowerVR Ray Tracing technology for licensing. The technology is part of PowerVR’s ongoing GPU roadmap which delivers optimal PPA (Power Performance Area) solutions.

You may not be familiar with the phrase Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), but you probably take advantage of it every day as it encompasses all satellite based global location systems; GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou.  By Richard Edgar, Director of Communications Technology, Ensigma, Imagination Technologies

Artificial intelligence (AI) is probably one of the most talked about technologies. Everyone wants to claim that their product has AI in it, even if it doesn’t. And if it does contain ‘AI’, what type are we talking here?  By Andrew Grant, Senior Business Development Director, Vision & AI, Imagination Technologies

  Imagination Technologies has announced new and enhanced tools to help developers optimise Android graphics performance for devices with PowerVR GPUs. These are: PVRMonitor for real time GPU and CPU performance statistics; PVRTune for profiling and analysing applications; and PVRStudio for seamless CPU/GPU debugging on PowerVR devices.

Today (February 26) at embedded world in Nuremberg, Imagination Technologies and Andes Technology, a specialist in low-power, high-performance 32/64-bit processor IP cores unveiled a collaboration to integrate the new N22 RISC-V MCU IP from Andes with Ensigma low-power IP for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15.4 and GNSS to provide a fully integrated, off-the-shelf solution for the IoT market.

It has been announced by Imagination Technologies that they have introduced the PowerVR Series9XEP, Series9XMP, and Series9XTP. Representing PowerVR’s GPU line-up, these three new Series9 GPU families range from entry-level to high-end and incorporate efficiency improvements and new features to deliver high performance.

The landscape of the automotive industry is shifting, and with several disruptive influences, a new automotive world order is upon us. This has been the driving (excuse the pun), force behind Imagination Technologies’ launch of PowerVR Automotive - a complete product package to enable growth and acceleration of the automotive semiconductor industry - combining five essential elements - hardware IP, software, tools, documentation and long te...

  The new generation of powerful image compression technology has been announced by Imagination Technologies with the PowerVR PVRIC4, which will aim to enable SoC customers targeting devices such as DTVs, smartphones and tablets to reduce costs without a discernible loss of image quality. 

  A comprehensive Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) IP offering has been announced by Imagination Technologies. The Ensigma Location GNSS IP core supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou as well as several Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) including WAAS and EGNOS. 

At its annual GTC 2018 conference, Imagination Technologies and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) announced a joint collaboration to provide ultra-low-power baseband and radio frequency (RF) solutions for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and IEEE 802.15.4 technology, using Imagination’s Ensigma connectivity IP on GF’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) platform. 

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. By Benny Har-Even, Imagination Technologies

Over the last few years the concept of virtualisation, separating software from the hardware on which it is run, has become familiar to many. In this article, Imagination Technology describes what virtualisation is, and look how it works in PowerVR GPUs, and explain how this provides great benefits to various markets, in particular to automotive.

We’ve all experienced it: that house or commercial alarm sounding at full volume, causing a nuisance yet nobody taking it seriously because it’s become a common occurrence. One of the biggest challenges for deployment of surveillance/security cameras is the number of false alarms. By Simon Forrest, Director of Connectivity and Connected Home, Imagination Technologies.

Two neural network cores, the AX2185 and AX2145, have been announced by Imagination Technologies, and are designed to enable high-performance computation of neural networks at very low power consumption in minimal silicon area. The cores are based on Imagination’s neural network accelerator (NNA) architecture, PowerVR Series2NX, which enables ‘smartness’ to move from the cloud into edge devices, enabling greater efficiency ...