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News Release from: Imagination Technologies
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Team on 17 October 2006
Mobile graphics on show in London
Imagination Technologies is demonstrating advanced technology for mobile 3D graphics on the Texas Instruments at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London.
Imagination Technologies is demonstrating advanced technology for mobile 3D graphics on the Texas Instruments stand (40) at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London until 18th October 2006 Imagination Technologies groundbreaking graphics technology, PowerVR, is a highly efficient and low-bandwidth solution, based on a unique tile-based deferred rendering architecture that is ideally suited to power and memory constrained mobile platforms, which has won its place as the de facto standard for mobile graphics having shipped in over 20 million phones so far
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hardware on display will include a Texas Instruments OMAP2420 development board running Symbian OS and the latest OMAP2420 enabled handsets from leading manufacturers.
PowerVR MBX is a unique graphics acceleration technology that delivers console-level 3D graphics on mobile phones and embedded devices via full support for leading APIs including OpenGL ES, OpenVG and Direct3D Mobile.
It is supported on a wide range of operating systems including Symbian OS.
Support for the developer ecosystem for these handsets is provided by PowerVR Insider, the market-leading technical support and comarketing programme from Imagination Technologies.
"TI's OMAP family of application processors is the industry's most popular platform for mobile phone manufacturers deploying comprehensive and advanced multimedia technologies into volume markets globally".
"As a result of our close partnership with Imagination Technologies for integration and support of the PowerVR MBX, TI is delivering leading embedded graphics performance today on the OMAP 2 platform", said.Markus Tremmel, Worldwide Manager of Cellular Systems Ecosystem at Texas Instruments.
"The combination of PowerVR MBX graphics acceleration and TI's market leading application processor designs is enabling the new generation of Symbian smartphones to run advanced graphical gaming content, applications and user interfaces", says Tony King-Smith, VP Marketing, Imagination Technologies.
"We "are delighted to bring the latest developments in this fast moving market space to the Symbian Smartphone Show".
Texas Instruments has recently licensed a PowerVR core from Imagination Technologies for use in its next generation application processor family, OMAP 3 architecture.
Additionally, TI has launched a new mobile gaming website that contains information on TI's mobile gaming developments including its collaboration with Imagination Technologies.
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