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Imagination Technologies Plans to Design RISC-V Cores

posted by martyb on Friday August 27 2021, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Imagination Technologies to design RISC-V cores:

Now better known for its PowerVR embedded GPUs, Imagination Technologies tried to enter the CPU market by purchasing MIPS Technologies and introducing microAptiv, interAptiv, and proAptiv cores in 2012.

It did not end up well, as the company had to sell its MIPS technology a few years later, and the MIPS architecture is now barely supported. But Imagination is now working on getting back into the CPU space by designing RISC-V cores.

[...] a May 2021 report by the Financial Times claims Imagination expects to invest up to $150m over the next two years to target a fresh push into the processor design market, specifically citing the RISC-V architecture.

Press release.

Also at Tom's Hardware.

See also: QEMU 6.1 Released With RISC-V Improvements, AMD Emulation Fixes

Related: Imagination Technologies Acquired for $675 Million, MIPS to be Sold Off
Wave Computing Acquires MIPS Technologies
Imagination Announces B-Series GPU IP: Scaling up with Multi-GPU

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 27 2021, @11:24PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 27 2021, @11:24PM (#1171561)

    Didn't their business pretty much dried up when Apple dumped them?

    And lost more money on MIPS?

    How do they stay in business? Who funds them?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:12AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:12AM (#1171640) Journal

    At least that’s what the company revealed in a press release also announcing overall revenues increased by 55% to $76m in H1 2021, with $70m in cash, and no external third-party debt.

    At least some SoCs are still using their graphics. They also attempted to pivot to the automotive market. Maybe that worked.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:14AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 28 2021, @04:14AM (#1171644)

    Mips was originally SGI. And, SGI was badass back in the day. In the 90's, SGI workstations had video cards about the size of an ATX motherboard to be able to fit all the video ram on them.

    Apple didn't own nor use mips ever. At least, as a main processor.

    Apple used MOS 6502 (and Zilog z80 in an add-in card), Motorola 68000 (and lisp machine processor in an add-in card), ARM (for their newton; and they invested in ARM company), IBM PPC (with x86 in an add-in card), x86 and arm again.