GRAPHICS, THE OTHER KEY DISTINCTION FOR ARM-BASED SOCs

摘要

Stepping back and redirecting your corporate focus is sometimes a smart move. Such is the to-date corporate summary for graphics provider Imagination Technologies (formerly, VideoLogic), which, with partners such as NEC and STMicroelectronics, originally spent several largely fruitless years attempting to compete against ATI Technologies, now a division of AMD; Nvidia; and others in the PC-graphics market (refereces A and B). The company's tile-based-rendering approach is amenable to memory-constrained systems, such as mobile-electronics devices, in which absolute graphics-API (application-processor-interface) compliance is also not strictly necessary.