Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
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Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#2My cynical take: Imagination Tech's legitimate business is vulnerable to an Apple counter-suit. Without that legitimate business weighing it down it would be much more valuable as a patent troll.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#3I feel like Imagination Tech can't die fast enough. These guys aggressively created patent clouds around anything and everything 3D graphic. It wasn't until a lot of the base patents on 3D acceleration started expiring that anyone would even consider the move Apple made. I hope that in 5 years we've got SoC's with fully open GPUs that are at least as powerful as the old 3Dfx Voodoo and Nvidia TNT series from the 90s.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#4I feel like Imagination Tech can't die fast enough. These guys aggressively created patent clouds around anything and everything 3D graphic. It wasn't until a lot of the base patents on 3D acceleration started expiring that anyone would even consider the move Apple made. I hope that in 5 years we've got SoC's with fully open GPUs that are at least as powerful as the old 3Dfx Voodoo and Nvidia TNT series from the 90s.
Nvidia and AMD are doing the same thing.
Outside of X86 GPUs are probably the most walled off market, you literally cannot make a GPU today without violating a patent.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#5I feel like Imagination Tech can't die fast enough. These guys aggressively created patent clouds around anything and everything 3D graphic. It wasn't until a lot of the base patents on 3D acceleration started expiring that anyone would even consider the move Apple made. I hope that in 5 years we've got SoC's with fully open GPUs that are at least as powerful as the old 3Dfx Voodoo and Nvidia TNT series from the 90s.
Nvidia and AMD are doing the same thing. Outside of X86 GPUs are probably the most walled off market, you literally cannot make a GPU today without violating a patent.
> Outside of X86 GPUs are probably the most walled off market
I think FPGAs are more walled off.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#6Google seems to be interested in hardware, hiring an ex Apple chip designer. Maybe they would be interested in this sale.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#7Google seems to be interested in hardware, hiring an ex Apple chip designer. Maybe they would be interested in this sale.
For 500 mil it should be a no brainier. Its like a rounding error for google.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#8Wonder if Apple's inhouse GPUs will turn out as well as their CPUs. It's gotta be a hell of a gig to land to work on either.
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#9I feel like Imagination Tech can't die fast enough. These guys aggressively created patent clouds around anything and everything 3D graphic. It wasn't until a lot of the base patents on 3D acceleration started expiring that anyone would even consider the move Apple made. I hope that in 5 years we've got SoC's with fully open GPUs that are at least as powerful as the old 3Dfx Voodoo and Nvidia TNT series from the 90s.
PowerVR have never filed a single patent suit. Are you confused with a different company? Like NVidia [1] or AMD [2] or something?
[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/04/nvidia-launches-pat... [2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11101/amd-files-patent-complai...
Re: Imagination Technologies put up for sale amid Apple dispute
#10Edit: I misspoke, I had the wrong company in my sights. Sorry folks.