Imagination pulls out of RISC-V CPUs
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Imagination Technology in the UK has shut down its development of RISC-V processor cores to focus on its GPU and AI products.
“Imagination exited its standalone line of CPUs to increase our investment in graphics, AI and compute at the edge which we believe is transformational for our business,” it told eeNews Europe. “We remain committed to the RISC-V ecosystem and believe this change to our business allows us to partner more easily with the wider ecosystem as providers of the GPU of choice for RISC-V.”
Imagination launched its Catapult family of RISC-V CPUs in December 2021, followed by a real time embedded CPU core in 2022 with the RTXM-2200. It launched a 64bit core, the APXM-6200, back in April 2024.
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The company had previously licensed its graphics technology to the RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory (RIOS Lab) in China. The collaboration supports the PicoRio board that is the first development platform released by the RIOS Lab, a spinout of the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) in Shenzhen, China.
The move is ironic as Imagination formerly owned MIPS, which has since pivoted to develop RISC-V cores.
The CEO of Imagination, Simon Beresford-Wylie, is intending to retire and the company is reportedly up for sale by its private equity owner, Canyon Bridge.
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