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Imagination reveals powerful graphics chips for smartphones and wearables

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The graphics in digital gadgets, from wearables to smart TVs, are about to get more snappy and responsive.

Imagination Technologies is launching its latest graphics cores that can be licensed by chip vendors to build full graphics chips. The London company says that these new cores offer a 60 percent improvement in performance, ranging from 20 gigaflops at the low end to 1.5 teraflops at the high end, compared to the previous generation.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.