Imagination announces GPU licensing agreement with YADRO

Imagination announces GPU licensing agreement with YADRO

IMG B-Series brings best-in-class multimedia processing capabilities to YADRO’s RISC-V SoC

London, UK – 6 December 2021 Imagination Technologies today announced that its ultra-efficient BXM-4-64 graphics processing unit (GPU) has been licensed by YADRO Microprocessors, a fabless chip design company and market leader in enterprise server and storage solutions in Russia. The IMG B-Series GPU will be used in YADRO Microprocessors’ EL Construct T series of RISC-V-based system-on-chips (SoCs) targeting enterprise tablet applications, with the SoC expected to ship in 2023.

The IMG BXM-4-64 GPU has been proven in the mobile market, with the highest area efficiency and pixels per clock (4PPC) of any GPU IP available in the market today, while providing the added benefit of the B-series multi-core architecture to support user scalability.

BXM is equipped with a powerful application programming interface (API) and operating system support, further enhancing its compatibility with any Linux-based tablet software. The GPU is also fully compatible with the EL Construct T RISC-V host processor, thanks to the driver software stack that can work with any CPU architecture, achieving the design goal of being easily ported and integrated with various operating systems, thus helping customers achieve a complete solution.

YADRO 的首席技术官Artem Ikoev表示："作为一家高科技工程公司，我们一直在寻找处于创新前沿的合作伙伴。Imagination的BXM GPU对我们而言是一个具有显著优势的选择，因为它使我们能够确信要去实施的是一种经过验证的、并与SoC基础架构完全兼容的成熟架构，同时可在不牺牲速度的情况下保持功率效率。这对于在平板电脑屏幕上显示高速和高质量的复杂图形至关重要。”

The IMG B series includes Imagination’s IMGIC technology, the most advanced image compression technology on the market, which provides customers with new options for saving bandwidth. IMGIC provides multi-level real-time image compression without increasing chip area, thus achieving a balance between storage bandwidth and image quality.

Steve Evans, Chief Revenue Officer at Imagination Technologies, says: “We are seeing a strong push for technological innovation across the Russian market as more companies invest in mobile solutions. This partnership with YADRO is an opportunity for Imagination to achieve beneficial growth in this market. We are excited about this first step in our collaboration with YADRO and look forward to more opportunities in the coming years.”