Rumors Are Flying That Apple May Be Trying To Acquire Imagination Tech

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rumors Are Flying That Apple May Be Trying To Acquire Imagination Tech

Rumors have been flying today that Apple is in advanced talks to buy out Imagination Technologies...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Rumor-Imagination

[SpyroRyder]

What products that aren't made by Apple use Imagination Technologies tech? Like what is a bit of hardware using PowerVR?

[davidbepo]

What products that aren't made by Apple use Imagination Technologies tech? Like what is a bit of hardware using PowerVR?

a lot of intel atoms and some mediateks

[rabcor]

Oh god I hope they don't sell out to those idiots.

[droidhacker]

What products that aren't made by Apple use Imagination Technologies tech? Like what is a bit of hardware using PowerVR?

Rather than listing it all, here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PowerVR_products
Hopefully, if Apple takes it over, it will lead everyone to run to... anything else. There is not much worse of a GPU than a piece of crap powervr.

[chuckula]

a lot of intel atoms and some mediateks

Older Atoms and a few of the 22nm generation Atoms use PowerVR but the upcoming product line doesn't appear to be using any PowerVR GPUs. Additionally, Intel sold its stake in Imagination around the same time that Imagination bought MIPS to make sure there wouldn't be a conflict of interest for MIPS development.

[droidhacker]

Oh god I hope they don't sell out to those idiots.

It would actually be a good thing, if it leads companies to switch to other products.

[speculatrix]

It would actually be a good thing, if it leads companies to switch to other products.

ideally, we want Imagination to publish a robust opensource linux driver, and then get swallowed by Apple and never be heard of again, so existing hardware people may have bought by accident will have linux support, but no new products will come out from Intel and others.

[SpyroRyder]

It would actually be a good thing, if it leads companies to switch to other products.

So to the Mali GPU's. I can't see most companies running to Nvidia for the Tegra which really only leaves Mali. This will either be Mali's best development period or Android phones are going to get a lot shittier

[Min1123]

Ok, so obviously they want the GPUs, but I'm more concerned about what they'll do with the entirety of the MIPS architecture.