Imagination announces Shader Model 3 capable mobile graphics processors

Imagination, a UK-based IP company that licenses its technologies to chip and electronics manufacturers such as Intel and Nintendo, unveiled a new graphics core technology, which promises to advance 2D and 3D graphics acceleration on mobile wireless devices.

The 90 nm R SGX cores are part of the firm's PowerVR Series5 programmable unified shader graphics and video core family. The chips target cellphone classes and integrate a feature set that, according to Imagination, "exceeds OGL 2.0 shader and Microsoft Vertex and Pixel Shader Model 3 requirements" and includes H.264 capability, supports OpenGL ES 2.0, D3D Mobile, Open VG, Open GL 2.0 and DirectX9+ running under Linux, Symbian, WinCE and Windows Mobile OS.

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