Vivante Corporation

Vivante Corporation is an Graphics processing unit technology designer, licensing its Mobile Visual Reality to semiconductor solution providers that serve embedded computing markets for mobile gaming, high-definition home entertainment, image processing, and automotive display and entertainment. Vivante is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an R&D center in Shanghai, China.

Vivante Corporation (originally known as GiQuila) was founded in 2004 as a fabless semiconductor company focused on the portable gaming market. The company's first product was a DirectX compatible graphics processing unit (GPU) capable of playing PC games. In 2007, GiQuila changed its name to Vivante and changed the direction of the company to focus on the design and licensing of embedded GPU designs.

Since changing directions Vivante has developed a range of GPU cores that are compliant with the OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 standards as well as the OpenVG standard.[1][2] They have announced that they have at least fifteen licenses who have used their GPUs in twenty embedded designs.[3]

Application processors using Vivante GPU technology

References

  1. ^ "Khronos Technology Conformant Companies". http://www.khronos.org/members/conformant. Retrieved July 9, 2009. 
  2. ^ "OpenVG in Hardware". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVG#OpenVG_in_Hardware. Retrieved July 8, 2009. 
  3. ^ "Vivante Corporation Signs 15th GPU Licensee" (Press release). June 8, 2009. http://www.vivantecorp.com/licensee.html. Retrieved July 8, 2009. 
  4. ^ "Vivante GPUs Power Marvell ARMADA Application Processors" (Press release). October 27, 2009. http://www.vivantecorp.com/mrvl.html. Retrieved February 1, 2010. 
  5. ^ "Vivante GPU IP Cores Power the Latest Freescale i.MX 6 Series of Application Processors" (Press release). April 26, 2011. http://vivantecorp.com/fsl.html. Retrieved July 31, 2011. 
  6. ^ "Vivante GPU Core Brings Android 3.0 Honeycomb Support to Ingenic’s Latest JZ4770 Application Processor" (Press release). June 13th, 2011. http://www.vivantecorp.com/ingenic.html. Retrieved December 13, 2011. 
  7. ^ "Chinese Academy of Sciences Selects Vivante as GPU Partner for Netbooks" (Press release). June 29th, 2009. http://vivantecorp.com/ICT.html. Retrieved December 13, 2011. 
  8. ^ "Guess what is ready for tape out: It has a MIPS core and a GPU from Vivante". April 28, 2011. http://semiaccurate.com/2011/04/28/guess-what-is-ready-for-tape-out/. Retrieved December 13, 2011. 

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