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Vivante intros Vega GPUs

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA: As the market for mobile devices continues to grow globally and the adoption of Google Android and Chrome OS has become pervasive, Vivante Corp., provider of the world's smallest, fastest and coolest GC (graphics and compute) series IP cores, announced its new Vega IP product line.

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The line brings GPU performance, API completeness and silicon cost-savings to SOC manufacturers addressing the global market for high performance, battery-efficient mass market devices - from wearables to streaming TV dongles to tablets and smartphones.

Leveraging seven years of architectural refinements learned from more than 100 Vivante partner mass market SOCs, Vega GPUs double graphics and compute performance over equivalent GC Series cores in the same mass market silicon footprint and provides support for the latest application programming interfaces (API), including OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL Full Profile.

Vega IP cores will enable system on chip vendors to put the latest technologies into their products without compromising PPA (Power, Performance and Area) yet deliver high-quality user interface and app graphics and GPGPU compute on devices of any size. Vivante cores target a full range of products from tiny embedded Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and motion processors to large screen 4K/8K TVs.

"Combined with the trend of embedding visual intelligence into all products regardless of form factor, size or shape, the GPU is at the epicenter of these market trends and the driver for product differentiation," said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research and known authority in graphics and multimedia.

"The GPU vendor that can deliver the most complete solution in an optimized package will win. Looking at the Vega product line, Vivante has an opportunity to hit the sweet spot for mass market manufacturers by combining API compatibility with performance and design flexibility in a small silicon package."

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