Imagination Unveils "Warrior P-Class" Processor
Imagination Technologies, a name notorious amongst Linux users largely over the company's shoddy Linux driver support for their PowerVR graphics cores, unveiled a new processor core today. Announced today in London was Imagination's first MIPS "Warrior P-Class" CPU core.
Back in 2012 Imagination took over part of MIPS and now nearly one year later they're out with the first MIPS Series-5 Warrior P-class CPU. The company calls this new processor a "major step forward" for high-performance MIPS CPU IP cores. The new 32-bit processor is low-power and has a silicon size up to 30% smaller than other comparable CPU cores. This is the first processor built on the MIPS Release 5 ISA, which was announced in December of last year. SIMD, hardware virtualization, and enhanced virtual addressing are among the key features to the MIPS architectural upgrade.
The new 32-bit MIPS P5600 CPU core has 128-bit SIMD support, hardware virtualization capabilities, next-generation security, and up to six cores per cluster. Imagination also said today they will be expanding their MIPS Warrior CPU family over the next year with more 32-bit and 64-bit variants.
More details on the new Imagination MIPS Warrior can be found via the ImgTec press release.
Back in 2012 Imagination took over part of MIPS and now nearly one year later they're out with the first MIPS Series-5 Warrior P-class CPU. The company calls this new processor a "major step forward" for high-performance MIPS CPU IP cores. The new 32-bit processor is low-power and has a silicon size up to 30% smaller than other comparable CPU cores. This is the first processor built on the MIPS Release 5 ISA, which was announced in December of last year. SIMD, hardware virtualization, and enhanced virtual addressing are among the key features to the MIPS architectural upgrade.
The new 32-bit MIPS P5600 CPU core has 128-bit SIMD support, hardware virtualization capabilities, next-generation security, and up to six cores per cluster. Imagination also said today they will be expanding their MIPS Warrior CPU family over the next year with more 32-bit and 64-bit variants.
More details on the new Imagination MIPS Warrior can be found via the ImgTec press release.
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