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The British chip designer Imagination Technologies provides PowerVR graphics processors for use in the iPhone and iPad, has said that Apple will no longer be licensing its technology in less than two years’ time.
Imagination also said that Apple has notified the company that it’s “working on a separate, independent graphics design in order to control its products and will be reducing its future reliance on Imagination’s technology.”
The development is a major hit for Imagination, which relies on Apple for about half of its revenue and will stop receiving rank on iPhone and iPad devices within nine months from now. Apple currently holds more than eight percent of the company.
If what Imagination says is true, we could see an A-series chip with both a fully Apple-designed CPU and GPU as early as next year’s iPhone range. Apple has already found success in the field of CPU design, with ARM-based processor cores that often vastly outperform those of competitors. But the particulars of any new GPU design are likely to come under strong inspection: Imagination is skeptical that Apple would be able to come up with chip technology that wouldn’t encroach upon its patents.
The company, Imagination believes
That it would be extremely challenging to design a brand new GPU architecture from basics without inspecting its intellectual property rights, accordingly Imagination does not accept Apple’s assertions.
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