Company profile
Imagination Technologies
Semiconductor IP company licensing graphics and compute processor designs to chip makers for use in mobile, automotive and embedded applications.
Company overview
Through licensing of soft GPU intellectual property, Imagination Technologies supplies architectures that customers integrate into their own semiconductor designs. Its work covers graphics processing, general-purpose compute and edge AI, with applications in mobile devices, automotive systems, consumer electronics, desktop computers and data centres. The E-Series combines programmable shading clusters with matrix acceleration and support for low-precision number formats. It also includes a RISC-V firmware processor for workload scheduling and communication with other accelerators. Other products include IMG DXD and IMG BXT GPU IP, alongside Neural Super Resolution software for image upscaling. Technologies described include tile-based deferred rendering, multi-core scaling, ray tracing and HyperLane virtualisation. Software support encompasses APIs such as Vulkan, OpenCL and DirectX. The company also reports contributing functionally safe GPU IP to the CHASSIS automotive chiplet programme. The supplied pages do not specify its UK premises or ownership.
Semiconductor activity
Primary capability: Semiconductor IP. Supply-chain role: Semiconductor IP licensor, GPU architecture developer.
Technologies and capabilities
- ASIC
- AI Accelerators
- Tile-based deferred rendering
- Matrix acceleration
- Low-precision computing
- RISC-V firmware processor
- Multi-core GPU scaling
- Ray tracing
- HyperLane virtualisation
- Neural rendering
Soft GPU IP licensing; E-Series GPU IP; IMG DXD GPU IP; IMG BXT GPU IP; Neural Super Resolution
Markets served
- Automotive
- Smartphones and mobile devices
- Consumer electronics and IoT
- Desktop and laptop computing
- Data centres and cloud gaming
UK presence
Kings Langley, East of England.
Research links: Contributes functionally safe GPU IP to the CHASSIS programme’s Automotive Base Die chiplet project..