Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies (in short " ImgTec " ) is an English company focused on the development and licensing of intellectual property ( engl. "intellectual property " = IP) is specialized. The Company's shares are traded under the symbol IMG on the London Stock Exchange.

History

Imagination Technologies was founded in 1985 as a video Logic Limited. At that time the focus was on the development and marketing of multimedia products for PCs, so that the product range consisted mainly of graphics cards and special video accelerators.

In July 1994, the company went public. On 18 November 1996, the company then brought together with NEC with the NEC PowerVR PCX1 the first 3D graphics chip, the PowerVR series on the market. Video Logic had developed the appropriate technology, NEC manufactured and sold the finished graphics chip and video Logic in turn sold appropriate graphic cards of the Apocalypse series.

On 31 August 1999 Video Logic was then renamed Imagination Technologies and a restructuring of the company known: The graphic development was spun off as a subsidiary called PowerVR Technologies while established a subsidiary under the former name Video Logic Systems that with the sale of products technologies from Imagination Technologies was responsible. Imagination Technologies acted from now on as a holding company and provided the appropriate cooperation between the subsidiaries.

On March 23, Ensigma has been specializing in the development of DSPs, and taken as a third subsidiary ( Ensigma Technologies) the company incorporated. Since Ensigma is more specialized on the development of communication technologies, the subsidiary Metagence Technologies was founded for the further development of general DSPs on May 3, 2001.

Having had shifted over time, the focus of graphics products more towards general audio products, we decided to rename video Logic Systems in PURE Digital on July 15, 2002. Video Logic is now just a brand name for some products from PURE Digital. Since early 2008, the company acts only under the name of Pure.

In November 2012 was the purchase of Imagination Technologies MIPS Technologies for 60 million U.S. dollars known. In addition assumes Imagination Technologies 82 patents Mips Technologies that are directly related to the MIPS architecture. For 350 million dollars go the remaining 498 patents to the Bridge Crossing LLC which include ARM Limited, a direct competitor to PowerVR heard. The rights to use these 498 acquires patents Imagination Technologies also. Imagination Technologies is thus better able to position the market in the CPU IP. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013.

Subsidiaries

Imagination Technologies includes the following subsidiaries:

  • Ensigma Technologies: Developing Multithreaded DSPs and GPPs
  • IMGWorks: Development and adaptation of SoC solutions
  • Metagence Technologies: Development of communications solutions
  • PowerVR Technologies: Development of graphics solutions
  • Pure: marketing of products with technologies of ImgTec

Divisions

Currently, Imagination Technologies and its subsidiaries focused on the development and licensing of technologies in the following business areas:

  • Mobile Phones and PDAs
  • Digital video: TV, DVD and set- top boxes
  • Digital radio
  • Car navigation systems

Licensee

Many well-known companies in the semiconductor industry are among the licensees of ImgTec. These include centrality, Digital One, Freescale, Frontier Silicon, Future Waves, Intel, Mavrix, NEC, NXP, Renesas, Samsung, SEGA, Sharp, Sunplus, Texas Instruments and Apple.

Since the developed technologies are sold and used under the name of the license holder, ImgTec belongs to the public in the lesser-know companies.

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