PowerVR Shows The Way at ARM DevCon 2004

[Kristof]

For video/mpeg acceleration I'm pretty confident that semis have also licensed the prementioned M24VA and/or M2VX from IMG for multimedia applications.

Based on what?

http://www.imgtec.com/News/Release/index.asp?ID=200

The Intel 2700G multimedia accelerator incorporates a PowerVR MBX graphics core and PowerVR video acceleration and display processing cores from Imagination Technologies.

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[SiBoy]

I was curious more about Renesas. The Japanese semi's have a lot more experience on the video side than with 3D. ARM's video support looked weak, so it seemed a little surprising that the majority of MBX licensees would take it (surely the TI OMAP's, etc. would not). Intel is not surprising since they always get their video elsewhere (like the IP core stitch-fest that is their set-top project, etc.).

 

[SegaR&D]

I could see one of these Renesas socs specifically the sh3707 being used in a handheld by Sega Sammy.

Come to think of it there isnt much planned by them on either the DS or the psp.

Hmm...

 

[Ailuros]

For video/mpeg acceleration I'm pretty confident that semis have also licensed the prementioned M24VA and/or M2VX from IMG for multimedia applications.

Based on what?

http://www.imgtec.com/Investors/Presentations/Interim04/index.asp?Slide=31

More specifically:

http://www.imgtec.com/Investors/Presentations/Interim04/index.asp?Slide=34

Using PowerVR MBX and related IP cores

I can't imagine anything else than the prementioned as in being related IP cores.

Same apparently for Sammy SoC:

http://www.imgtec.com/Investors/Presentations/Interim04/index.asp?Slide=35