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It’s a good point about the higher storages having higher bandwidth, and I’m not sure about the configurations of the two phones used in each of the above videos. I’ve definitely seen a comparison between an iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone X of equal storage which confirmed the result, and I’d imagine...

Apple’s second generation neural network algorithm accelerator seems to be similar in class to PowerVR’s 2NX. I know they didn’t use Imgtec’s design for their processor, but that would’ve just been another synergy for them to bolster their processor design teams had they purchased Imgtec. Still...

A year ago in this thread, I pointed out the curiosity that the iPhone 8/X’s A11 SoC was quite a bit slower than the iPhone 7’s A10 at the processor intensive task of video rendering/export. From what I remember being detailed about the processing work being done by the specific video apps...

Every Apple A-Series SoC release, including the last several (A7, A8, A9, A10) have greatly raised the bar in mobile graphics performance, and Adreno, in its best years, manages to roughly match it in absolute performance about six months later (and with lower power efficiency). If Apple was...

A10 seems to have some real advantages over the A11 in performance, as shown in numerous speed tests like this one during an intensive video rendering/export match-up featured at 10:35 in the following video: I believe iMovie on iOS makes good use of the GPU to accelerate this render out...

Apple starts building an internal GPU design team from engineers who had worked on immediate mode renderers and could've never admitted the fundamental superiorities of tile based deferred rendering. Meanwhile, Apple's close partnership with Imagination gives them access to the specifics of the...

I think Apple will still be one of the most likely candidates to buy them out, and I think they'd end up having to pay a rate similar to what they would have had to pay before IMG's stock price was sunk.

I wonder if the A10X performance improvements over the A9X will be similar at each iPad Pro form factor. The current 12.9" model is still far and away the most powerful device in its class.

Unfriendly takeovers aren't ideal when a primary goal of the acquisition is to gain the talent/staff of the target company. Sure, lots of engineers would've stayed anyway, but they could still end up losing some key personnel as a result. Apple was not as interested in acquiring the rights to...

Once upon a time, Imagination shrewdly gained a head start in a market with massive potential, GPUs for pocket computers, wielding their best-in-class processor designs. They quickly dominated this rapidly growing market, appearing in the SoC implementations of most of the major players like...

This of course shows that Apple hadn't stopped using Imgtec's designs already, as was recently reported, not that such speculation ever made sense. It also doesn't make sense that Apple could or should go forward without buying out assets of Imgtec. They've been acquiring talent from them here...

Part of Apple's increasing focus on Metal?

I'm not sure how closely David Kanter paid attention to Imagination's announcement of Series 7XT Plus: https://imgtec.com/blog/powervr-series7xt-plus-gpus-advanced-graphics-computer-vision/ ... but I think he's confusing implementation customizations for architectural design direction. Now...

https://gfxbench.com/result.jsp?benchmark=gfx40&test=754&text-filter=&order=score&ff-lmobile=true&ff-smobile=true&os-Android_gl=true&os-custom_gl=true&os-iOS_gl=true&os-iOS_metal=true&os-Linux_gl=true&os-OS_X_gl=true&os-OS_X_metal=true&os-Windows_dx=true&os-Windows_gl=true&pu-dGPU=true&pu-iGPU=tr...

He did a nice job researching some of those details, but his conclusion is flawed. Some of the differences pointed out, like the additional optimizations for 16-bit calculations, are exactly the kind of customizations that Imagination would make for a core customer like Apple. The reality is...