Imagination Technologies

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Imagination is a UK-based company that creates silicon and software intellectual property (IP) designed to give its customers an edge in a competitive global technology market. Its graphics, compute, vision & AI and connectivity technologies enable outstanding power, performance and area (PPA), robust security, fast time-to-market and lower total cost of ownership. Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their phones, cars, homes, and workplaces. Imagination Technologies was acquired in 2017 by Canyon Bridge, a global private equity investment fund.

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Imagination Takes Efficiency Up a Level with Latest D-series GPU IP

February 25, 2025

The Imagination DXTP GPU IP extends battery life when accelerating graphics and compute workloads on mobile and other power-constrained devices. 25 February 2025 – Today Imagination Technologies announces its latest GPU IP, Imagination DXTP, which sets a new standard for the efficient acceleration of graphics and compute workloads on smartphones and other power-constrained devices. Thanks […]

More New Hires Fuel Imagination’s Momentum In the USA

December 18, 2024

Senior hires across sales, product and engineering reflect regional growth December 18, 2024 – Following our previous announcement regarding Imagination Technologies’ (“Imagination”) investment in the USA, a range of senior leaders have joined the Imagination team based in Campbell, California to build on the momentum Imagination is seeing in this world-leading technology market. Following his […]

Imagination Technologies Expands In the USA

December 4, 2024

Considerable business growth spurs investment in local team December 4, 2024 – Imagination Technologies (“Imagination”) is expanding its team based in the United States of America following a sustained period of substantial growth in the region. To support the area’s growing customer base and build successful partnerships with the local technology ecosystem, Imagination has embarked […]

Imagination’s New Catapult CPU is Driving RISC-V Device Adoption

April 9, 2024

Imagination APXM-6200 CPU: The performance-dense RISC-V application processor for Intelligent, Consumer and Industrial Applications 08 April 2024 – Imagination Technologies today unveils the next product in the Catapult CPU IP range, the Imagination APXM-6200 CPU: a RISC-V application processor with compelling performance density, seamless security and the artificial intelligence capabilities needed to support the compute […]

Imagination and MulticoreWare Collaboration Accelerates Automotive Compute Workloads

January 4, 2024

San Jose, California – 4 January 2024 – MulticoreWare Inc and Imagination Technologies announce that they have enabled GPU compute on the Texas Instruments TDA4VM processor, unleashing around 50 GFLOPS of extra compute and demonstrating a massive improvement in the performance of common workloads used for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The […]

Imagination Launches Its First Edge AI Course

March 9, 2023

Introducing edge AI principles and practices through comprehensive materials and hands-on exercises London, England – 9th March 2023 – Imagination Technologies launches a new course on edge AI for undergraduate students as part of its Imagination University Program (IUP). Titled “Edge AI: Principles and Practices”, the course features a wealth of materials and hands-on exercises, enabling […]

Imagination Extends Its Commitment to RISC-V with an Upgrade to Premier Level Membership

December 14, 2022

Accelerating ecosystem growth as a leading member of the RISC-V community London, England – 14th December 2022 – Imagination Technologies announces it has upgraded to the Premier RISC-V International membership level, further establishing its commitment to drive growth for the RISC-V ecosystem. At this Premier level, Shreyas Derashri, VP of Compute at Imagination, will join […]

Imagination Partners with MulticoreWare Inc. and Demonstrates Superior Performance of Its GPUs

November 21, 2022

London, England – 21st November 2022 – Imagination Technologies (“Imagination”) has announced a new partnership with MulticoreWare Inc. (“MulticoreWare”) as a preferred software development partner to optimise algorithms on Imagination GPUs. MulticoreWare Inc. is a software solutions and services company that specialises in optimising computer vision, sensor data processing, and AI applications on a variety […]

Imagination and Baidu PaddlePaddle Create Open-source Machine Learning Library for Model Zoo

September 27, 2022

“Hardware and Ecosystem Co-Creation Program” offers enhanced support for AI developers and SoC designers London, England – 27th September 2022 – Imagination Technologies and PaddlePaddle announce a new, jointly developed Model Zoo library. This significant milestone in their partnership covers several types of AI processing, including image classification, image segmentation, and object detection. These Model […]

Imagination’s PowerVR Architecture Marks its 30th Anniversary

August 30, 2022

Celebrating three decades of market-leading graphical innovation London, England – 30th August 2022 – Imagination Technologies celebrates the 30th anniversary of its revolutionary PowerVR GPU architecture. Initiated in 1992, the PowerVR project was part of a wave of products that enabled consumer 3D graphics for PCs. PowerVR was unique in introducing a brand-new rendering method: […]

Imagination Launches IMG RTXM-2200 – Its First Real-time Embedded RISC-V CPU

June 21, 2022

Configurable CPU for mainstream smart embedded and networking devices including storage controllers and packet management solutions London, England – 21st June 2022 – Imagination Technologies announces IMG RTXM-2200, its first real-time embedded RISC-V CPU, a highly scalable, feature-rich, 32-bit embedded solution with a flexible design for a wide range of high-volume devices. IMG RTXM-2200 is […]

Imagination Launches Open Access Program, Providing Scale-ups with a Low-cost Path to Differentiated Silicon

May 31, 2022

Removing licensing fees and accelerating SoC development for growing businesses London, England – 31st May 2022 – Imagination Technologies announces its Open Access program, offering access for early-stage companies to select class-leading GPU and AI accelerator IP without any licensing costs. This lowers the barriers of entry to SoC design, enabling scale-ups to create advanced […]

Imagination and Visidon Partner for Deep-learning-based Super Resolution Technology

May 20, 2022

IMG Series4 NNA enables advanced AI-based software to efficiently upscale images and videos London, England – 17th May, 2022 – Imagination Technologies and Visidon Oy partner to power the transition to deep-learning-based super resolution for embedded applications across mobile, DTV and automotive markets. This AI-based technology allows users to upscale low-resolution images and videos up […]

Imagination and Ambarella Partner on Autonomous Vehicle Human-machine Interface Visualisations with ASIL Functional Safety

April 27, 2022

IMG BXS-Series ASIL-B capable GPUs adopted by Ambarella for CV3 Automotive SoC Family London, England – 25th April, 2022 – Imagination Technologies has entered into a comprehensive licensing agreement with Ambarella, enabling access to various IMG B-Series multi-core GPUs, including the ASIL-B certifiable IMG BXS GPUs for safety-critical applications. The IMG BXS GPU will be […]

Imagination Launches RISC-V CPU Family

December 6, 2021

Catapult CPUs are based on RISC-V ISA and designed for heterogeneous solutions London, England –6th December 2021 – Imagination Technologies announces Catapult, a RISC-V CPU product line designed from the ground-up for next-generation heterogeneous compute needs. Based on RISC-V, the open-source CPU architecture, which is transforming processor design, Imagination’s Catapult CPUs can be configured for […]

Imagination Technologies Demonstration of Deploying Hardware-accelerated Long Short-term Memory Neural Networks on Edge Devices

December 2, 2021

Gilberto Rodriguez, Director of AI Product Management at Imagination Technologies, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Rodriguez demonstrates deploying hardware-accelerated long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks on edge devices, using Imagination Technologies’ neural network acceleration (NNA) IP. Rodriguez shows how to unroll and […]

Imagination’s Neural Network Accelerator and Visidon’s Denoising Algorithm Prove to be Perfect Partners

September 10, 2021

This blog post was originally published at Imagination Technologies’ and Visidon’s websites. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies and Visidon. This blog post is a result of a collaboration between Visidon, headquartered in Finland and Imagination, based in the UK. Visidon is recognised as an expert in algorithms for camera image […]

“High-fidelity Conversion of Floating-point Networks for Low-precision Inference Using Distillation with Limited Data,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

August 31, 2021

James Imber, Senior Research Engineer at Imagination Technologies, presents the “High-fidelity Conversion of Floating-point Networks for Low-precision Inference Using Distillation with Limited Data” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. When converting floating-point networks to low-precision equivalents for high-performance inference, the primary objective is to maximally compress the network whilst maintaining fidelity to the […]

Imagination Launches IMG Labs to Create Breakthrough Technologies

March 25, 2021

Tim Mamtora leads IMG Labs division, a technology incubator for next-generation IP London, England; 25th March 2021 – Imagination Technologies announces IMG Labs, a specialist division tasked with developing breakthrough innovations fundamental to new, advanced semiconductor products. IMG Labs’ mission is to understand and accelerate future trends in the semiconductor industry, translating these into new […]

Imagination’s GPU Selected by StarFive to Create High-performance, Small and Low-cost BeagleV RISC-V AI Single Board Computer

February 23, 2021

New collaboration supports RISC-V ecosystem with world-class GPU performance London, England and Shanghai, China – 22nd February, 2021 – Imagination Technologies announces that StarFive, an industry-leading provider of RISC-V processors, platforms and solutions, has licensed the IMG B-Series graphics processing unit (GPU) IP to support the development of its latest RISC-V single-board computer (SBC). Imagination’s […]

“Challenges and Approaches for Cascaded DNNs: A Case Study of Face Detection for Face Verification,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

January 20, 2021

Ana Salazar, Senior Research Manager at Imagination Technologies, presents the “Challenges and Approaches for Cascaded DNNs: A Case Study of Face Detection for Face Verification” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. This talk explores the challenges of deploying serial computer vision tasks implemented with DNNs. Neural network accelerators have demonstrated significant gains in […]

Free Webinar Explores the Role of Neural Network Acceleration in Automotive

November 21, 2020

On January 12, 2021 at 9 am PT (noon ET), Imagination Technologies will present the free half-hour webinar “The Role of Neural Network Acceleration in Automotive,” organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Here’s the description, from the event registration page: Industry research suggests that demand for ADAS will triple by around 2027. In […]

Imagination Launches Multi-core IMG Series4 NNA – The Ultimate AI Accelerator Delivering Industry-disruptive Performance for ADAS and Autonomous Driving

November 12, 2020

Offering the most responsive and power efficient neural network acceleration for next-generation automotive use cases London, England – 12th November 2020 – Imagination Technologies announces IMG Series4, its next-generation neural network accelerator (NNA) for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. Series4 targets automotive industry-leading disruptors as well as Tier 1s, original equipment manufacturer (OEMS) […]

Imagination’s New BXS GPU Enables Automotive Graphics in Texas Instruments Processor Family

November 4, 2020

London, England; 4th November 2020 – Imagination Technologies announces that its BXS-4-64 GPU will be included in Texas Instruments (TI) Jacinto™ processor families for automotive applications. BXS offers up to 60% higher performance for automotive graphics applications, like surround view technology, thanks to its bespoke design for the automotive market needs. IMG BXS is the […]

Imagination Launches IMG B-Series: Doing More with Multi-core

October 13, 2020

New multi-core options deliver the best GPU IP for all markets London, England – 13th October 2020 – Imagination Technologies announces IMG B-Series, a new expanded range of GPU IP. With its advanced multi-core architecture, B-Series enables Imagination customers to reduce power while reaching higher levels of performance than any other GPU IP on the […]

Imagination Announces XS, the Automotive Industry’s Most Advanced GPU IP

July 8, 2020

Delivering safety-critical graphics, ADAS compute acceleration and ISO 26262 conformance London, UK – 8th July 2020 – Imagination Technologies announces the XS GPU product class for automotive, enabling ADAS acceleration and safety-critical graphics workloads. XS represents the most advanced automotive GPU IP created to-date and is the first licensable IP in the industry that is […]

Imagination Receives ISO 26262 Statement of Process Conformance from HORIBA MIRA

May 20, 2020

London, England; 20th May 2020 – Imagination Technologies has achieved ISO 26262 process conformance following a successful audit of its Functional Safety Management System by HORIBA MIRA. HORIBA MIRA is a global provider of engineering, research, and test services to the automotive, defence, aerospace and rail sectors. OEMs, Tier 1s and semiconductor vendors can integrate […]

Imagination Showcases Groundbreaking New Safety-critical Driver

April 29, 2020

Taking the first steps to making safety-critical 3D graphics for the automotive market a reality London, England; 29th April 2020 – Imagination Technologies new OpenGL® SC (Safety-Critical) 2.0 driver development for its automotive graphics processing units (GPUs) enables automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to benefit from GPU acceleration in safety-critical applications. Automotive applications such as […]

Imagination and Apple Sign New Agreement

January 2, 2020

London, UK; 2nd January 2020 – Imagination Technologies (“Imagination”) announces that it has replaced the multi-year, multi-use license agreement with Apple, first announced on February 6, 2014, with a new multi-year license agreement under which Apple has access to a wider range of Imagination’s intellectual property in exchange for license fees. About Imagination Technologies Imagination is a […]

UNISOC and Imagination Carry Out Strategic Cooperation on AI Based on IMG Series3NX Neural Network Accelerator

December 3, 2019

LONDON, UK and Beijing, China; 3rd December 2019 – Imagination Technologies announces that UNISOC, a leading fabless semiconductor company, has licenced its latest generation of neural network accelerator (NNA), IMG Series3NX for use in future system-on-chips (SoCs) targeting mid-high range mobile devices, TV and other markets. UNISOC previously integrated Imagination’s Series2NX AI core into its […]

Imagination Launches IMG A-Series: “The GPU of Everything”

The fastest GPU IP ever Shanghai, China; 3rd December 2019 – Imagination Technologies announces the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series. The fastest GPU IP ever released, IMG A-Series evolves the PowerVR GPU architecture to fulfil the graphics and compute needs of the full spectrum of next-generation devices. Designed to be […]

Cloud and Edge Vision Processing Options for Deep Learning Inference

October 31, 2019

Should deep learning-based computer vision processing take place in the cloud, at the edge, or both? This seemingly simple question has a complicated answer: "it depends." This article provides perspectives on the various factors you should consider, and with what priorities, when making this implementation decision for your particular project's requirements. THe Edge-Centric Inference Evolution […]

“Object Detection for Embedded Markets,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

August 20, 2019

Paul Brasnett, PowerVR Business Development Director for Vision and AI at Imagination Technologies, presents the “Object Detection for Embedded Markets” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. While image classification was the breakthrough use case for deep learning-based computer vision, today it has a limited number of real-world applications. In contrast, object detection is […]

“Mining Site Data Extraction Using 3D Machine Learning,” a Presentation from Strayos

July 15, 2019

Ravi Sahu, Founder and CEO of Strayos, presents the "Mining Site Data Extraction Using 3D Machine Learning" tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. This talk focuses on extracting invariant features for segmentation of 3D models of mining sites. The image data is generated by stitching together geo-tagged images from a drone. The 3D […]

PowerVR GPU and NNA Available On SiFive Platform

May 13, 2019

Imagination Technologies joins SiFive’s DesignShare Ecosystem, Enabling RISC-V users to access industry-leading IP London, UK; and San Mateo, California; 13th May 2019 – Imagination Technologies announces that it has joined SiFive’s DesignShare ecosystem, giving system designers easy access to its industry-leading PowerVR GPU and neural network accelerator (NNA) IP cores. The PowerVR GPU will be […]

Combining an ISP and Vision Processor to Implement Computer Vision

January 28, 2019

An ISP (image signal processor) in combination with one or several vision processors can collaboratively deliver more robust computer vision processing capabilities than vision processing is capable of providing standalone. However, an ISP operating in a computer vision-optimized configuration may differ from one functioning under the historical assumption that its outputs would be intended for […]

“Improving and Implementing Traditional Computer Vision Algorithms Using DNN Techniques,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

September 6, 2018

Paul Brasnett, Senior Research Manager for Vision and AI in the PowerVR Division at Imagination Technologies, presents the “Improving and Implementing Traditional Computer Vision Algorithms Using DNN Techniques” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. There has been a very significant shift in the computer vision industry over the past few years, from traditional […]

“Training CNNs for Efficient Inference,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

July 24, 2017

Paul Brasnett, Principal Research Engineer at Imagination Technologies, presents the "Training CNNs for Efficient Inference" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Key challenges to the successful deployment of CNNs in embedded markets are in addressing the compute, bandwidth and power requirements. Typically, for mobile devices, the problem lies in the inference, since the […]

“Training CNNs for Efficient Inference,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

Imagination’s Smart, Efficient Approach to Mobile Compute

January 25, 2017

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Imagination designed its PowerVR Tile-Based Deferred Rendering (TBDR) graphics architecture more than 20 years ago with a focus on efficiency across performance, power consumption and system level […]

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Measuring GPU Compute Performance

January 23, 2017

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. After exploring a quick guide to writing OpenCL kernels for PowerVR Rogue GPUs and analyzing a heterogeneous compute case study focused on image convolution filtering, I am […]

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Supported Zero-copy Flows Inside the PowerVR Imaging Framework

December 1, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. In a previous article we described our PowerVR Imaging Framework, a set of extensions to the OpenCL and EGL APIs that enable efficient zero-copy sharing of memory […]

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The PowerVR Imaging Framework Camera Demo

November 15, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Writing and optimizing code for heterogeneous computing can be difficult, especially if you are starting from scratch. Imagination has set up a new page where developers can […]

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Deep Dive: Implementing Computer Vision with PowerVR (Part 3: OpenCL Face Detection)

October 31, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Imagination’s R&D group has developed a face detection algorithm, which is based on a classifier cascade and is optimized to run on mobile devices comprising a CPU […]

“Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Inference on Mobile GPUs,” a Presentation from Imagination Technologies

July 11, 2016

Paul Brasnett, Principal Research Engineer at Imagination Technologies, presents the "Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Inference on Mobile GPUs" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. GPUs have become established as a key tool for training of deep learning algorithms. Deploying those algorithms on end devices is a key enabler to their commercial success and […]

Optimizing Computer Vision Applications Using OpenCL and GPUs

June 29, 2016

The substantial parallel processing resources available in modern graphics processors makes them a natural choice for implementing vision-processing functions. The rapidly maturing OpenCL framework enables the rapid and efficient development of programs that execute across GPUs and other heterogeneous processing elements within a system. In this article, we briefly review parallelism in computer vision applications, […]

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Deep Learning on Mobile Devices at the Embedded Vision Summit 2016

June 23, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. It was clear last week at the annual Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara that the time of computer vision and deep learning on mobile had finally arrived. Interest in the area is growing noticeably – […]

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Deep Dive: Implementing Computer Vision with PowerVR (Part 2: Hardware IP for Computer Vision)

March 8, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Modern mobile application processors are highly heterogeneous, combing a variety of different hardware components optimized for different tasks. As shown in the figure below, a processor designed […]

Deep Dive: Implementing Computer Vision with PowerVR (Part 1: Computer Vision Algorithms)

February 16, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Computer vision is the use of computers to extract useful meaning from images, such as those that arise from photographs, video and real-time camera feeds. Thanks to […]

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Heterogeneous Compute Case Study: Image Convolution Filtering

February 1, 2016

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. In a previously published article, I offered a quick guide to writing OpenCL kernels for PowerVR Rogue GPUs; this sets the scene for what follows next: a […]

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The PowerVR Imaging Framework for Android

December 2, 2015

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. In a previous article about heterogeneous architectures, I identified memory bandwidth as the main bottleneck for implementing power-efficient algorithms for computer vision. Luckily, Imagination has created an […]

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Increasing Performance and Power Efficiency in Heterogeneous Software

October 30, 2015

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Heterogeneous architectures in embedded computing are fast becoming a reality – we indeed see many leading IP and semiconductor companies today building heterogeneous computing hardware. In the […]

A Quick Guide to Writing OpenCL Kernels for PowerVR Rogue GPUs

October 8, 2015

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Firstly, I’d like to give you an overview of OpenCL programming fundamentals using a basic program, followed by an explanation of OpenCL execution on Rogue GPUs. This […]

A Primer on Mobile Systems Used for Heterogeneous Computing

September 28, 2015

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. In the mobile and embedded market, the design constraints of electronic products can sometimes be seen as tight and contradictory: the market demands higher performance yet lower […]

The Complete Glossary to Heterogeneous Compute

September 21, 2015

This article was originally published at Imagination Technologies' website, where it is one of a series of articles. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. For the last decade, Imagination has been at the forefront of heterogeneous compute, becoming a founding member of the HSA Foundation and a contributor to many open […]

OpenCL Eases Development of Computer Vision Software for Heterogeneous Processors

April 28, 2015

OpenCL™, a maturing set of programming languages and APIs from the Khronos Group, enables software developers to efficiently harness the profusion of diverse processing resources in modern SoCs, in an abundance of applications including embedded vision. Computer scientists describe computer vision, the use of digital processing and intelligent algorithms to interpret meaning from still and […]

OpenCL Eases Development of Computer Vision Software for Heterogeneous Processors

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