Immersive gaming, photo-realistic graphics, and HD video will soon take a giant step off your desktop and into the palm of your hand with the arrival of a new line of multi-core GPUs aimed squarely at the mobile, handheld, and automotive markets.
The new designs are from Imagination Technologies, a fabless chip designer perhaps best known not only for the fact that its PowerVR MBX core powers Apple's iPhone, but also because both Apple and Intel have made substantial investments in the Hertfordshire, England company.
The new line of GPU designs are based on technologies developed for the company's PowerVR SGX543 graphics core - which we reported on in January. The line is called, unsurprisingly, PowerVR SGX543MP.
In his Tuesday keynote at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara, California, Imagination's VP of marketing, Tony King, told the assembled engineers that the SGX543MP family would support from two to sixteen cores.
