Imagination unveils PowerVR silicon core

Imagination's own evaluation silicon for SGX540, Ares, is being demonstrated at an event in Tokyo for the Japanese consumer electronics and communications industry.

PowerVR SGX540 typically delivers twice the performance of PowerVR SGX530, while consuming less than double the silicon area or power consumption.

The PowerVR SGX architecture is scalable, with IP (Intellectual Property) cores in the range targeting entry-level handsets, through smartphone and MID, navigation and DTV/STB products.

The small sizes of the IP cores and the tile-based deferred shading architecture allow chip makers to keep the clock speed of the core low and memory bandwidth very low, therefore extending battery life.

PowerVR SGX's tiled-based deferred rendering and multi-threaded Universal Scalable Shading Engine (USSETM) keep graphics processing highly efficient and on chip.

PowerVR SGX brings a unified and programmable shader environment to mobile applications, while retaining full compatibility with existing PowerVR MBX applications.