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Who are Imagination's four missing customers?
Peter Clarke
1/26/2012 11:12 AM EST
As my recent blog asking about the top ten customers of ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) proved popular I thought I would try and repeat the trick with regard to graphics IP licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc. (Kings Langley, England), which of course is also a competitor to ARM.
However I don't have a ranking of Imagination's customers by revenue contribution to hand and so things will have to be done a different way.
Imagination recently announced the first products in its PowerVR Series 6 family, previously codenamed "Rogue." The company also said it has eight licensees for Series 6 cores including: ST-Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Renesas Electronics and MediaTek.
So who are the missing four licensees from that list?
My nominations would be:
Intel
Apple
Samsung
and Qualcomm, which was disclosed as a licensor in Imagination's most recent financial results.
Readers may think (or know) otherwise. Feel free to share in the forum below.
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hammerd2
1/26/2012 12:16 PM EST
Intel
Apple
Sony
TI
Qualcomm in 12 months
Samsung in 6 months
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hammerd2
1/26/2012 5:12 PM EST
Sorry, meant to say :
Intel
Apple
Sony
Fujitsu
Qualcomm less than 12 months
Samsung less than 6 months (if not the Fujitsu license !)
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peter.clarke
1/27/2012 9:01 AM EST
@hammerd2
Thanks..
so that's Intel Apple, Sony and Fujitsu...with Samsung to come followed by Qualcomm, taking PowerVR Series 6 up to ten licensees.
You speak with confidence.
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