Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company, announces the latest IP cores in its ground-breaking PowerVR Series6 GPU core family.
The PowerVR G6230 and G6430 GPU IP cores are the latest in a growing family of PowerVR Series6 GPU cores and deliver high compute efficiency while minimising power and bandwidth requirements.
Following on from the G6200 and G6400 cores, the PowerVR G6230 and G6430 offer two further design points in the Series6 family, which now includes two ‘two-cluster’ and two ‘four-cluster’ IP cores.
PowerVR G6200 and G6400 are designed to deliver the best performance at the smallest area possible for two and four cluster architectures respectively, while the PowerVR G6230 and G6430 ‘go all out’, adding incremental extra area for maximum performance whilst minimising power consumption.
All ‘Rogue’ architecture cores deliver a power / performance ratio unmatched by competitor solutions, without compromising on feature set.
Says Tony King-Smith, VP marketing, Imagination: “With the four cores announced so far PowerVR Series6 can target a wide range of markets and requirements. PowerVR Series6 has already set a new benchmark for high performance, ultra-low power GPU cores. With G6200, G6230, G6400 and G6430 we deliver power, performance and area that fits the wide range of differentiated designs our licensing partners want to create.”
PowerVR Series6 is based on the highly scalable ‘Rogue’ architecture and further cores will be announced to deliver the widest range of performance for licensing partners seeking to deploy the industry’s leading graphics IP solution with the optimal intersection of product differentiation and the shortest time to market.
Inside Rogue
Based on a scalable number of compute clusters, the PowerVR Rogue architecture is designed to target the requirements of a growing range of demanding markets from mobile to the highest performance embedded graphics including smartphones, tablets, PC, console, automotive and TV. Using these arrays of programmable computing elements PowerVR G62xx and G64xx deliver high compute power efficiency while minimising power and bandwidth requirements. The PowerVR G62xx and G64xx, have two and four compute clusters respectively.
PowerVR Series6 GPU cores are designed to offer computing performance exceeding 100GFLOPS (gigaFLOPS) and reaching the TFLOPS (teraFLOPS) range enabling high-level graphics performance from mobile through to high-end compute and graphics solutions. Rogue cores are specified to ensure the fill rates required for the latest smartphones, tablets and TVs, as well as the multiple screen support demanded by the automotive industry.
Rogue meets requirements for compute APIs including OpenCL 1.x and Renderscript Compute, delivering an optimal balance of performance versus power consumption for mobile and embedded devices. All members of the Series6 family are designed to support all features of the latest graphics APIs including the next generation of the OpenGL ES API*, OpenGL 3.x/4.x, and DirectX10 with certain family members extending their capabilities to full WHQL-compliant DirectX11.1 functionality.
The PowerVR Series6 family delivers a significant portfolio of new technologies and features, including: advanced scalable compute cluster architecture; high efficiency compression technology including lossless image and parameter compression and the widely respected PVRTC2™ texture compression; an enhanced scheduling architecture; dedicated housekeeping processor based on Imagination’s Meta technology; and a new generation Tile Based Deferred Rendering architecture. These features combine to produce a highly latency tolerant architecture that consumes the lowest memory bandwidth in the industry while delivering the best performance per mm2 and per mW.
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GPU IP vendor Imagination Technologies has announced a collaboration with TSMC to ensure that licensees of all of Imagination's IP cores can optimize speed, area and power consumption on TSMC's most-advanced 28nm and below processes.
Imagination is already a member of TSMC's Soft-IP Alliance program. The IP licensor said the announcement is made as part of its closer relationship with the foundry partner.
Imagination's IP core families in this collaboration include PowerVR graphics, PowerVR video and display, Ensigma communications, and Meta processors. Meta is a 32-bit hardware multi-threaded processor architecture.
"Many of our licensees rely on TSMC to provide them with leading edge low power, high performance silicon foundry capabilities. This strengthening of our relationship with TSMC reflects our determination to deliver the best possible SoC solutions on the latest silicon processes for our SoC IP licensing partners," said Tony King-Smith, VP marketing, Imagination. "We believe this initiative will ensure that Imagination's licensees to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible for future generations of advanced SoCs."
In addition, Imagination noted that the firm has grown its licensee portfolio in Taiwan. Through the support of its Taiwan-based partners including MediaTek, MStar, Realtek, Sunplus and SiS, Imagination is able to reach the local OEM and ODM companies in China, the GPU IP licensor said.
For instance, many China-based OEMs have developed MediaTek-based phones. MediaTek has licensed Imagination's PowerVR Series6 for its smartphone processors.
In China, Imagination has expanded its local licensee base to include HiSilicon, Ingenic and Rockchip, the IP vendor revealed. Imagination is also partnering with well-known chip suppliers such as TI, whose processors adopted by China's OEMs including Lenovo and Huawei.
And to respond to its growing business in Asia, Imagination has moved to increase its local engineering and sales support, China and Taiwan, the UK-based IP supplier noted.
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ARM recently had an analyst investor day, during which they gave the impression (imo) that they were winning the battle for GPU in the China/Taiwan territory. A quick look at some of the names in the above article would suggest otherwise.
Mediatek re-iterated its estimate of smartphone chips at the AGM earlier of 75m for the full-year and these are IMG'd, so it is quickly becoming our no.2 chip shipper (after Apple of course). It should not be too long before the IMG'd TV chips from market leaders Mediatek and MStar (currently Mali) also start shipping.
So things are looking great for IMG in China/Taiwan with much more to come. We should get more information on 19th June in the Full Year statement from IMG and the presentation slides.
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