Imagination Technologies has just announced that they signed a multi-year, multi-use license agreement with an unnamed company. This license agreement gives the unnamed company access to Imagination’s various PowerVC graphics and video cores. There is much speculation that the unnamed company is Apple, since Apple uses Imagination’s fourth-generation PowerVC chipset in the iPhone and iPod Touch. Imagination released the following statement:
As a result of this new agreement, it is expected that Imagination’s IP cores will feature in a number of new SoCs to be used in this company’s future products. Under the terms of the above licensing arrangement, Imagination will receive on-going licence fees as well as royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination’s IP.
There are also reports from EETimes that Apple also secured a license agreement with ARM, which also powers both the iPhone and the iPod Touch. If these rumors are true, Apple will be able to deliver custom chipsets for their future products. Again, this means only good news for us consumers.
- Geoff
[Source:MacRumors]
