Imagination Tech to License Ray-Tracing IP as 5G Beckons

By Nitin Dahad, EETimes
May 8, 2019

Imagination Technologies has announced it is opening up its PowerVR ray tracing intellectual property (IP) technology for licensing to the market beyond its own devices. The company believes there are disruptive opportunities for high quality graphics rendering in 5G applications.

In an exclusive interview with EE Times, Imagination told us ray tracing will enable state-of-the-art realistic image rendering using light-modelling techniques to be integrated into graphics processing units (GPUs) across mobile, automotive, server and other markets. In describing its thinking and reasoning behind opening up its IP to external licensing, I got the sense that it wants to do for 5G what Arm did for prior generations of mobile applications: be the go-to IP for high performance graphics rendering. The company believes we are at an inflexion point similar to the one Arm experienced back in the 2000s.

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