Imagination Technologies, a 30-year-old GPU manufacturer, will return to the graphics card market

When it comes to desktop graphics cards, the manufacturers that come to mind are AMD and NVIDIA. These two companies have dominated the gaming card market for more than 20 years. This year, Intel has joined the battlefield, and in the future there may be another player - Imagination Technologies (IMGTech for short). This 30-year-old GPU chip company will also return to the desktop market.

IMGTech, like ARM, is a chip company headquartered in the UK. One specializes in CPU and the other specializes in GPU. It has been established for 30 years. It used to make 3D graphics cards a long time ago, but after failure, it focused on the mobile GPU market. Apple's A series processors have always used IMGTech's PowerVR GPU license until it started to develop its own GPU core.

However, Apple's plan to develop its own GPU did not go smoothly. Originally, Apple planned to completely eliminate IMGTech, but in the past two years, it had to reach cooperation with IMGTech again.

IMGTech currently has a 35% share in the mobile GPU market and will expand into new market areas in the future. One important direction is to return to the desktop graphics card market. By the end of this year, it will increase its total number of employees by 30%, build a new office in Manchester, UK, and recruit employees in Poland, Romania, India and the UK headquarters.

IMGTech's move to return to desktop graphics cards has actually begun to show results. The Fenghua 1 and Fenghua 2 desktop graphics cards released by China's Innosilicon Technology are IMGTech's GPU IP. Among them, Fenghua 2 has a FP32 floating-point computing power of 1.5TFlops (1.5 trillion calculations per second), which not only supports OpenGL 4.3, but also supports Windows 10 DX11, Linux, etc., and consumes only 4-15W of power.

"Fenghua 3" has basically completed its research and development, and will provide domestic users with cool features such as super computing power and ray tracing.