May 2014, At the Imagination Developer’s Conference in Santa Clara, Imagination Tech announced the formation of the new open source developer community supporting the MIPS architecture. The group called “prpl” was founded by a broad industry following that includes Broadcom, Cavium, Ikanos, Imagination, Ineda Systems, Ingenic Semiconductor, Lantiq, Nevales Networks, PMC, and Qualcomm as the…
April 1, 2014, San Jose, CA—Imagination Technologies once again attended a show and introduced a host of new and updated products. The focus at the EE Live! Conference and Expo was on embedded products, especially wearables and IoT. For this sector of the embedded space, the key issues are in battery life, size, and performance….
January 2014 – Imagination Technology, as usual, was visible all over CES 2014. They started off with their Pure radio group at CES unveiled showing their internet radios that support multi-format software defined tuners. At the show its self Pure radio had a booth showing their systems, but they also had a briefing and meeting…
October 2013 – The opening session of the Linley Tech Processor event is usually on multi-core architectures. This year, it was the same, with the exception that the bandwagon for multi-core was all ARM 64 bit. Broadcom, Freescale, Cavium, and Synopsys all launched products, tools and IP for supporting the ARM64 ecosystem. This system is…
August 28, 2012, Hot Chips Symposium, Cupertino, CA—This year’s Hot Chips key topic was power management. Intel, AMD, and MIPS all talked about re-architecting the cache controller to reduce misses and, as a result, greatly reduce power. Other major changes included new logic cells and significant architectural changes in other functional units. Power and performance…