Ingenic Semiconductor and Vivante expand GPU technology partnership for next gen mobile products

SUNNYVALE, USA: Vivante Corp., a global leader in graphics and compute technologies for mobile, consumer and embedded applications, and Ingenic Semiconductor, a leading China-based SoC provider for consumer devices, have announced a license agreement update that includes higher performance Vivante GPU cores to power the next wave of Ingenic applications processors.

Ingenic was the first company to successfully ship non-ARM based tablets and smartphones worldwide. They also shipped the market's first Android 4.0 (ICS) tablet, which was endorsed by Andy Rubin of Google. All those products were powered by Vivante GPUs.

Vivante graphics cores deliver an exciting and "butter smooth" user experience with state-of-the-art GPU architectures built for consumer entertainment. The GPU hardware and software stack supports the latest graphics APIs including OpenGL ES 2.0, ES "Next Gen", desktop OpenGL, Microsoft DirectX 11 and Google RenderScript. Designed for mobile power efficiency and unified shader performance, Vivante GPUs enable products to run faster, smaller and cooler.

Qiang Liu, chairman and CEO, Ingenic Semiconductor, said: "Our ongoing partnership with Vivante for their GC Core graphics technologies helps us bring the latest innovations and features to our XBurst product line. The technical and business leadership of our companies enabled us to successfully reach mass market production in tablets and smartphones. We look forward to our ongoing collaboration and continued success as we expand our footprint globally."

Vivante president and CEO, Wei-Jin Dai, added: "We are excited to continue our partnership with a high growth leader like Ingenic. They have shown the ability to execute and deliver exceptional products that catch the attention of the market and industry. The combination of Ingenic's innovative, low power MIPS32/64 XBurst CPU architecture and our market leading performance and low power graphics cores bring alive the latest multimedia, GPU accelerated browsing and 3D content."