Imagination Takes On Nvidia

Nick Flaherty, EETimes
11/3/2014 11:05 AM EST

BRISTOL, UK — Imagination Technologies is looking to develop technology that would combine its latest multicore MIPS processors with large arrays of its PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs).

This would allow its IP customers to create chips that would compete directly with Nvidia’s Kepler and Maxwell chips for higher-performance computing.

Alongside its i6400 Warrior core, Imagination is developing the coherent interconnect technology to link hundreds of MIPS and PowerVR cores and is happy to support customers with such developments, said Jim Whittaker, executive vice president of the MIPS division, speaking at the recent Multicore Challenge conference in Bristol, UK.

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