Imagination Technologies Group plc
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Jump to navigationJump to searchType | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Founder | Tony Maclaren |
| Headquarters | Kings Langley, Hertfordshire , United Kingdom |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ray Bingham (Chairman and CEO) |
| Products | PowerVR GPU designs |
| Parent company | Canyon Bridge Capital Partners |
| Divisions | PowerVR, Ensigma |
| Website | imgtec.com |
Imagination Technologies Group plc is a semiconductor design company owned by China through Canyon Bridge Capital Partners. It is headquartered in Hertfordshire, UK. Imagination is notable for their PowerVR graphics chips found on a lot of tablets, smartphones, single-board computers and things like that.
Linux Support[edit]
Imagination is not a very Linux-friendly company. It is possible to use their graphics card with a closed-source binary blob. There is no free software support.
Imagination does not submit patches to the Linux kernel or contribute to free software in any other way.
