Since the purchase of the company by Imagination Technologies MIPS, it was thought that the developer PowerVR graphics cores is going to challenge ARM company . ARM company has gripped the world of smartphones and tablets with the help of computer architecture.
Purchase of MIPS allowed developers of Imagination to create a comprehensive and logically complete platform for the production of smartphones, tablets and wearable electronics. Along the way, it turned out that Imagination, like ARM, has designs on the computer market and the server market. Servers on ARM and Apple laptops on SoC Ax - it's all there. Four years later, unsure of Imagination, the MIPS architecture can be registered in a quarter of all produced in the world of processors and SoC. To achieve such a significant success the company creates, including a new generation of coherent (coherent) interface for the organization of multi-core bonds.
The current generation Warrior i6400 in maximum configuration allows for the creation of the six-core SoC bus Coherent I / O width of 128 bits. Obviously, for a cluster with hundreds of cores is not enough. At a recent conference Multicore Challenge company representative admitted that the Imagination is working on an interface that can work in concert with hundreds of cores, providing a scalable communication between cores MIPS and PowerVR. Thus, the company is trying to create an analogue of Imagination SoC NVIDIA Tegra, which combines the ARM core and graphics GeForce. As recognized by the developers, the client asked if they are willing to create a product of higher performance, suitable for supercomputing. However, it will have to create an analogue of the ecosystem NVIDIA CUDA-based OpenCL. Related Products :
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