Sylvie Barak, EETimes
12/14/2011 2:28 PM EST
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif--Qualcomm Inc. has become a new Imagination Technologies licensee, along with MStar, Ricoh and Rockchip, joining existing partners like Sony, Intel, Mediatek, Renesas, Samsung, Sigma and Realtek.
Imagination Technologies confirmed that Qualcomm was licensing the display IP from its PowerVR portfolio.
Several months back, Wall Street pundits were speculating that Qualcomm might be readying itself to make an investment in Imagination’s GPU solution for use with Windows 8 devices.