Product category: Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: PowerVR SGX Shader Graphics Accelerator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 01 August 2005
Cores shade ahead in mobile graphics
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The PowerVR SGX Shader Graphics Accelerator family is billed as the future of wireless mobile embedded graphics and video technology.
New from Imagination Technologies is the PowerVR SGX Shader Graphics Accelerator family, billed as the future of wireless mobile embedded graphics and video technology The PowerVR SGX cores for wireless applications are part of Imagination's PowerVR Series5 scalable and fully programmable unified shader graphics and video core family, previously codenamed Eurasia
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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