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Licence Agreement

4th May 2010 07:00

RNS Number : 2108L
Imagination Technologies Group PLC
04 May 2010
 



4 May 2010

 

Imagination Technologies Group plc

 

Imagination Technologies licenses high-performance multi-processor graphics processor core to Renesas Electronics

 

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, reports that it has signed a multi-use license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723; "Renesas"), a premiere supplier of advanced semiconductors, for a multi-processor core from Imagination's new POWERVR SGX Series5XT IP core family.

 

Renesas will deploy the technology in future system-on-chip (SoC) designs for the mobile market.

 

Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination receives license fees and royalty revenues on shipment of SoCs incorporating Imagination's IP.

 

About POWERVR Series5XT

 

Members of the POWERVR SGX Series5XT Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) IP core family feature significant performance enhancements over the already highly successful SGX Series5 architecture. All Series5XT SGX cores are based on a second-generation Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE2™) that delivers significantly higher processing throughput than the earlier Series5 USSE shader engine, as well as other architectural extensions enabling low-power and high-performance for 2D, 3D and general purpose (GP-GPU) processing in either single core or scalable multi-processor (MP) solutions.

 

About Imagination Technologies - www.imgtec.com.

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG) - a global leader in multimedia and communication silicon technologies - creates and licenses market-leading processor cores for graphics, video, multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP and multi-standard communications applications. These silicon intellectual property (IP) solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by a strong array of software tools and drivers as well as extensive developer and middleware ecosystems.

 

Target markets include mobile phone, handheld multimedia, home consumer entertainment, mobile and low-power computing, and in-car electronics. Its licensees include many leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies.

 

Imagination has corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide.

 

 

ENQUIRIES:

 

Imagination Technologies Group plc

Tel: 01923 260 511

Hossein Yassaie, CEO

Trevor Selby, CFO

College Hill

Tel: 020 7457 2020

Adrian Duffield/Carl Franklin

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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