2 Mar 2015 07:00
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2 March 2015
Imagination Technologies Group plc
Announcements on PowerVR and MIPS at MWC 2015
Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, "Imagination", "the Group"), a leading multimedia, communications and processor technology company, has today, with its partners, made a series of announcements at Mobile World Congress ("MWC") 2015 in Barcelona regarding MIPS and PowerVR products.
· Imagination and Altair Semiconductor ("Altair") report growing market traction for Altair's LTE chipsets that utilise MIPS CPUs. Altair's LTE devices, including the FourGee-3100/6200 chipset, have been the communications engine inside millions of devices sold by more than 30 connected device manufacturers to-date including Verizon, HP and ASUS.
· Imagination announces that its MIPS CPU IP cores continue to gain traction in LTE devices through the latest designs from 4G chipmaker Sequans Communications. MIPS CPUs are at the heart of Sequans' new Colibri and Calliope platforms for the LTE-enabled Internet of Things (IoT). In addition, Sequans' chipsets and modules with MIPS inside are finding their way into an increasing number of end products including those from Verizon and Best Buy.
· Imagination announces a new area-optimised PowerVR GPU designed to drive high-quality graphics with full OpenGL ES 3.0 functionality into low-cost and space-constrained devices.
· Imagination announces a new PowerVR High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) IP family designed to provide the highest quality H.265 encoding, while optimising silicon area and bandwidth usage. This multi standard encoder also offers high-quality H.264 encoding for compatibility with the huge range of AVC (Advanced Video Coding) decoders available today.
Tony King-Smith, EVP marketing, commented:
"MWC is one of the most important industry events of the year for many of our partners and licensees. These announcements are examples of growing momentum for our MIPS business, especially in LTE and other key mobile communications applications, as well as demonstrating our expanding leadership from low-end to high-end of our industry-leading mobile PowerVR GPU IP portfolio. We'll be showcasing these technologies along with the full range of our communications, processor and multimedia technologies at MWC."
About Imagination TechnologiesImagination is a global technology leader whose products touch the lives of billions of people across the globe. The company's broad range of silicon IP (intellectual property) includes the key processing blocks needed to create the SoCs (Systems on Chips) that power all mobile, consumer and embedded electronics. Its unique software IP, infrastructure technologies and system solutions enable its customers get to market quickly with complete and highly differentiated SoC platforms. Imagination's licensees include many of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEMs/ODMs who are creating some of the world's most iconic products. See: www.imgtec.com.
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Imagination Technologies' Press Contacts:
UK: David Harold david.harold@imgtec.com +44 (0)1923 260 511
USA: Jen Bernier-Santarini jen.bernier@imgtec.com +1 408-530-5178