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Imagination Technologies enters the midrange

Imagination Technologies has owned the high-end non-Qualcomm-based smartphone GPU segment since the beginning, but until now hadn’t paid much attention to the low-end, leaving that segment to ARM—till now. Imagination just announced a new family of GPUs that it claims will provide the ideal balance of performance and fill-rate needed to enable gaming and compute applications on cost-sensitive devices. Designated ...

Jon Peddie

Imagination Technologies has owned the high-end non-Qualcomm-based smartphone GPU segment since the beginning, but until now hadn’t paid much attention to the low-end, leaving that segment to ARM—till now. Imagination just announced a new family of GPUs that it claims will provide the ideal balance of performance and fill-rate needed to enable gaming and compute applications on cost-sensitive devices. Designated the PowerVR ‘Series8XE Plus’ these new GPU designs expand the company’s IP range of entry-level and mid-range GPUs with three new IP cores. The company will offer the new cores as engines suited for low-end to midrange gaming and compute
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