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Imagination’s Chinese connection collaboration continues

UK-based GPU designer Imagination Technologies has been in the news of late over a riff with its owner Canyon Bridge Partners, a Chinese government-backed VC firm that bought Imagination in 2017. The disagreement, which caused the company’s noted CEO to resign, had to do with the Canyon Bridge Partners trying to reconstitute the BOD with the goal of moving the ...

Jon Peddie

UK-based GPU designer Imagination Technologies has been in the news of late over a riff with its owner Canyon Bridge Partners, a Chinese government-backed VC firm that bought Imagination in 2017. The disagreement, which caused the company’s noted CEO to resign, had to do with the Canyon Bridge Partners trying to reconstitute the BOD with the goal of moving the company to China. That drama settled down and rumors of Canyon Bridge Partners’ plan to take Imagination public on the Shanghai stock exchange gave some people encouragement. Meanwhile, while all the uproar over ownership, location, and its future was going
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