Imagination works with TSMC to develop FinFET process

Published:2013/3/27 3:24:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

According to Processor IP licensor Imagination, it will work with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to develop reference design flows using PowerVR Series 6 GPUs for manufacturing processes including the forthcoming 16-nm FinFET process.

Imagination announced that the use of high bandwidth memory channels and 3-D IC assembly will be part of the collaboration and should allow the two companies to demonstrate high performance, small physical footprint and low power.

However, Imagination also offers the PowerVR VPU video decoder and encoder, the Ensigma radio processor unit (RPU) which covers connectivity applications and the recently acquired line of MIPS processor cores.

"Just as memory drove silicon processes in the 80s and 90s, and CPUs drove processes further in the late 90s and 00s, high performance mobile GPUs for graphics and compute applications are one of the major drivers for our most advanced process technologies," said Cliff Hou, vice president of R&D at TSMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan), in a statement issued by Imagination.

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