appleinsider.com - 12/18/2008
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New evidence that Apple is the mysterious licensee of Imagination Technologies Group's PowerVR mobile graphics technology broke today, when the company publicly announced that Apple has subscribed to 8 million new shares of IMG, giving the iPhone maker a 3% stake in the firm. A press release ...
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Apple has announced that chief executive Steve Jobs
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Expo in January. The company also said that this year’s trade show will be its last. The announcement raised speculation among Wall Street ...
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New evidence that Apple is licensee of PowerVR mobile graphics technology
Macsimum News —
... There’s new evidence that Apple is the mysterious licensee of Imagination Technologies Group’s PowerVR mobile graphics technology as the company has announced that Apple has subscribed to eight million new shares of IMG, giving the company a three percent stake in the firm, reports AppleInsider. A press release also revealed... ...
Apple unveiled as investor in graphics technology maker Imagination Technologies
VentureBeat —
... Imagination Technologies Group disclosed a deal today that has Apple blogs going bananas. The U.K. company said that Apple has acquired a 3.6 percent stake in the graphics chip licensing company for $5 million. ...
Investment offers graphic illustration of Apple’s mobile vision
GMSV —
... , there is fresh evidence today of Apple’s ambitions in that direction. Imagination Technologies Group, designer of PowerVR mobile graphics technology, announced that Apple had acquired a 3.6 percent stake in the company for about $5 million. Pieced together with previous clues, says AppleInsider , the announcement confirms Apple as the previously unnamed “international electronic systems company” that plans to use Imagination’s ...
Apple Invests in Advanced Mobile Graphics
Technologizer —
... that Apple had acquired a 3.6 percent stake in the company and licensed its PowerVR graphics technology. Apple already a great gaming platform in the iPhone, and this transaction plays to that strength. The deal may have been in the works since earlier this year, according to a report by AppleInsider , which has been following Apple’s supply chain. With the acquisition, Apple will be better positioned to offer its developers a more compelling gaming platform. Many of the top applications in the iTunes App Store are games. Cupertino–which touts the iPod Touch as the “funnest ...
Apple buys stake in the mobile graphics chip company
The Apple Core —
... mobile graphics line of processors used for a variety of applications including mobile phones. According to AppleInsider “Apple has subscribed to 8 million new shares of IMG, giving the iPhone maker a 3% stake in the firm” and it has licensed Imagination’s technology. Recognizing Apple as the mysterious “international electronics systems company” also helped explain why the company had acquired ...
Does Imagination license spell HD-out for future iPhones?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... , developer of the PowerVR chip for mobile device displays, has a licensing agreement with Apple for its chip designs (long suspected by AppleInsider but only just confirmed) and that Apple has picked up a chunk of ITG stock; ...
Which Tech Company Is Apple Investing In?
Fast Company - Technology —
... the iPhone 3G a boost over its competitors. IMG's technology, PowerVR, is comprised of a "system-on-a-chip" processor that includes an advanced graphics core and video decoding technology. In April, IMG said it had a major electronics-maker ready to license its technology. Today, the mystery of who that electronics-maker might be has come to an end, after IMG announced Apple's investment. So what has inspired Apple to own 3% of this company and its mobile graphics chips? According to AppleInsider , "Those parts will introduce OpenGL ES 2.0 support, along with a Universal ...
Apple, Intel Tap Into Imagination
Digital Daily —
... — whose PowerVR mobile graphics components are now expected to figure prominently in future iPhones, Intel (INTC) raised its own stake in the company ...
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