Not all graphics are created equal.

Last week the guys from GameBench published a collection of screenshots taken from several mobile games running on three premium smartphones – and the results are quite interesting.

For the win.

Confession: I get really excited about hardware. I really go all out, mini-fist pump and everything.

LG G2: one year later.

I bought my LG G2 smartphone in April 2014 because I had lost my previous phone (a Motorola RAZR i) on a trip abroad. After reading some online reviews, I decided that it was the best phone I could buy at the time for £300. The G2 had all the right features I was looking […]

The IP licensing business model. A love story.

Some months ago my colleague Rys Sommefeldt wrote an article offering his (deeply) technical perspective on how a chip gets made, from R&D to manufacturing. While his bildungsroman production covers a lot of the engineering details behind silicon production, it is light on the business side of things; and that is a good thing because […]

When SoC met IP.

In this article I’d like to address a common misconception that I often see reprinted in many articles. When presenting the relationship between IP vendors and chip makers, an image of fierce competition is repeatedly (and wrongfully) painted in the media.

Be true to your school.

About a month ago, Imagination announced MIPSfpga, an initiative that gives universities free access to an unobfuscated, production-quality MIPS CPU.

The evolution of MIPS CPUs

Inspired by a question I saw on reddit earlier today, I decided to repurpose some slides initially created for a press briefing earlier this month.

All your cores are belong to us.

First we saw the gold rush of octa-core; now we’re hearing reports of deca-core and perhaps even dodeca-core processors. So. Many. Cores. How did we get here?

It’s hip to be square.

Today Imagination is releasing a new version of the Creator CI20 microcomputer that features an updated design. The square shape improves Wi-Fi performance and makes it easier for makers to mount the board on top of various other components.