Get that smartphone chip out of my wearable!
The interest surrounding wearables has never been higher. IDC says that over 19 million wearable devices will ship by the end of 2014, a threefold increase over last year’s figure. Wearable shipments...
View ArticleWearable SoCs for fitness bands and activity trackers
Fitness bands and activity trackers are helping millions of consumers monitor their exercise habits and improve their overall health. IHS Technology is projecting that fitness trackers will be worth...
View ArticleSoCs for smartwatches and other mainstream wearables
According to a team of Gartner analysts, affordable Android-based smartwatches will retail at $30 by 2015 as interest builds up inside consumer mass markets in China and internationally. This puts...
View ArticleChipsets for smart glasses and other high end wearables
Smart glasses are an example of high-end output wearables; whether they’re used in industrial applications or to augment our everyday life, smart glasses are the poster child for computer vision...
View ArticlePCs are not the only devices going wireless in 2015
While browsing on Forbes a few months ago, I came across an article by Moor Insights & Strategy founder and principal analysts Patrick Moorhead who described how recent wireless technologies are...
View ArticleImagination joins with industry leaders to drive open security
Every day we hear some new horror story about security, whether it’s consumers impacted by phishing or other intrusions in their own applications and devices, or via enterprise breaches in an...
View ArticleToshiba TZ5000 processors combine PowerVR, Ensigma for IoT, wearables and...
In a recent blog article, I covered a few announcements from MWC related to chips using MIPS CPUs for IoT and M2M applications, a market that is set to continue growing exponentially in the next...
View ArticleEnsigma Whisper radio processors take on low power connectivity
Digital baseband integration has been a growing trend in wireless applications as it offers tangible benefits for system architects looking to reduce cost, form factor and power consumption. Until now,...
View ArticleELVEES goes full purple: MIPS, PowerVR and Ensigma united in one vision chip
If you follow this blog closely (and I hope you do), you may have read several articles recently about the great work Imagination is doing to help silicon vendors get to market quickly. One example is...
View ArticleImagination, TSMC collaborate on a wide range of IoT subsystems
If you look at the semiconductor landscape today, the number of companies that have the ability to design advanced SoCs is shrinking rapidly. Industry consolidation/verticalization and rising...
View ArticleTSMC at the 2015 Imagination Summit: optimized silicon IP for the IoT market
A few months ago, Imagination and TSMC joined forces to announce their ongoing collaboration around production of highly-optimized IP subsystems for multiple markets, including smart sensors, connected...
View ArticleProcessing performance requirements for IoT devices
In this article I’d like to explore some architectural considerations for the CPU and wireless connectivity performance requirements for IoT devices. This post is relevant for system designers looking...
View ArticleOptimizing Wi-Fi power consumption for IoT
A recently published article by Alan Aronoff provided an excellent introduction into the world of IoT. If you are interested in designing chips for IoT, make sure you keep following our blog because we...
View ArticlePower management for IoT devices
Power management is an often overlooked yet critical area for both consumer and industrial IoT devices. In a battery powered device, optimizing dynamic as well as static power is imperative; power...
View ArticleCreator Ci40 dev kit puts the IoT in a box for £80
Recent research from Gartner suggests that by 2020 the Internet of Things market will grow to include billions of connected devices from smart sensors and gateways to data centers and other computing...
View ArticleEnsigma Series5 radio processors for high performance connectivity
Since their release, the Ensigma Series4 family of Radio Processing Units (RPUs) has been the powerhouse for high-performance connectivity standards such as 802.11ac 2×2 and 802.11n 4×4 as well as many...
View ArticleEnsigma Whisper RPUs and IoT applications
In a previous post my colleague Kevin McDermott laid out the processing requirements for IoT devices. He also touched upon the data rate requirements for IoT. Today I’d like to talk about our Ensigma...
View ArticleHeterogeneous and cognitive connectivity in the 5G era
Whenever I talk about Imagination Technologies, my colleagues in the industry almost always identify us with PowerVR and MIPS – two of the biggest brands in the GPU and CPU space, respectively....
View ArticleImplementing Cat-0 and Cat-1 LTE for the Ensigma Explorer radio processors
When selecting processor IP for connectivity or communication standards, most people compare fixed-function blocks vs. programmable (or software defined radio [SDR]) solutions in terms of three...
View ArticleA new architecture for consumer IoT applications
If you’ve been following the wireless industry for some time (like yours truly), you might have noticed that a lot of the marketing effort behind launching a new connectivity standard is spent on the...
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