I'd say their IP is in most cars that that use a 3D GPU for their instrument cluster or infotainment systems. Texas Instruments and Renesas together make up the vast majority of that market and IMG's GPUs have been embedded in all the past 3 generations or so of automotive chips made by Renesas (RCar 1,2,3) and TI (DRAxx & TDAxx) You rarely hear which chip went in which car since the automotive suppliers (that make the Electronic Control Units for the OEMs like Ford, etc.) don't generally disclose that to the public. I know that Mercedes E-class launched in 2016 or 2017 uses a TI TDA2x chip (among zillions of others) so there's a specific example.
Not sure if that's true anymore, but Imagination didn't do itself any favors with its almost hostile attitude to the open source community in past years. Yes, many of those efforts are small fry, but even the smallest sardine looks awfully tasty once the big fish (Apple) are gone.
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SydneyBlue120d - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link
Can you name a car selling now or soon using Imagination IP?Jonny_H - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link
The ford Sync3 stuff is all based on the omap5 - it's pretty old, but it's got PowerVR graphics.EmbeddedShire - Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - link
I'd say their IP is in most cars that that use a 3D GPU for their instrument cluster or infotainment systems. Texas Instruments and Renesas together make up the vast majority of that market and IMG's GPUs have been embedded in all the past 3 generations or so of automotive chips made by Renesas (RCar 1,2,3) and TI (DRAxx & TDAxx)You rarely hear which chip went in which car since the automotive suppliers (that make the Electronic Control Units for the OEMs like Ford, etc.) don't generally disclose that to the public.
I know that Mercedes E-class launched in 2016 or 2017 uses a TI TDA2x chip (among zillions of others) so there's a specific example.
eastcoast_pete - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link
Not sure if that's true anymore, but Imagination didn't do itself any favors with its almost hostile attitude to the open source community in past years. Yes, many of those efforts are small fry, but even the smallest sardine looks awfully tasty once the big fish (Apple) are gone.sing_electric - Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - link
They really, really want to get a customer other than MediaTek...peevee - Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - link
Why wouldn't they make a PCIe GPU based on a whole lot of their cores? At least mobile ones? Nvidia is getting so fat...