HiSilicon Technologies company in May made a contracts on licensing of GPU. At first, this Chinese designer, previously used GPU Vivante, has licensed Imagination PowerVR graphics cores 6-series , and this week announced the signing of another agreement. It opens up the possibility of using HiSilicon in their products GPU ARM Mali, including the popular model Mali-400 MP and the latest high-performance model Mali-T658 with DirectX 11 support . In addition, the company has licensed HiSilicon processors ARM Cortex.
HiSilicon is a member of ARM Connected Community, a global network of more than 900 companies, whose members have access to a large number of resources that help to use the advantages of ARM architecture.
The new licensing agreement will increase the levels of GPU performance scalability , which HiSilicon can offer to the manufacturers of electronic devices. Diversification of mobile and consumer electronic devices markets makes it increasingly important presence in the arsenal of semiconductor components developer, exactly matching the needs of the selected segment or application. Moreover, the graphical component may be crucial in differentiating products and become a determining factor in the perception of end product .
The ability to use the GPU for general purpose computing, the architecture implemented in Mali, HiSilicon will go beyond the usual use of graphics, covering applications such as computational photography, image processing and augmented reality.