GPU maker abandoned and sold by Apple signs a new license agreement with Apple

by Tyler Lastovich

It has become clear that Apple has signed a new license agreement with semiconductor maker Imagination Technologies. Imagination Technologies was a supplier of GPUs to Apple, but the company was forced to sell itself as a result of Apple's own development of GPUs.

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Apple, former partner Imagination Technologies ink new licensing agreement
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Imagination Technologies, a UK-based semiconductor maker, has been supplying GPUs for A-series chips to iPhones and iPads prior to iPhone X. However, since Apple, which had been developing its own design GPU, announced in April 2017 that it will end the license agreement with Imagination Technologies within two years and develop its own GPU , Imagination Technologies will become the largest customer I was lost and I was eventually forced to sell myself.

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Licensing fees from Apple accounted for a very large percentage of revenue from Imagination Technologies in 2017, at approximately $ 81 million. Imagination Technologies has criticized Apple, who has unilaterally notified that the license agreement has been destroyed, for 'misusing Imagination Technologies' confidential information and intellectual property rights.' Apple, on the other hand, 'new from Imagination Technologies in 2015 intellectual property and stop to get a more license fee has shifted to and need contract low' claims had been.

Imagination Technologies said on January 2, 2020, `` A license agreement with Apple announced on February 6, 2014 for multiple use over multiple years, a new multiple that allows Apple to access a wider range of intellectual property Year license agreement. '

Imagination Technologies has not disclosed what products will be affected by the new licensing agreement with Apple. However, before 2017, Imagination Technologies' GPU / PowerVR has been used for Apple's A series chip.

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