Vivante unveils Vega graphics chips for Android and Chrome OS devices

The maker of the graphics chips in the successful Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is continuing its attach on ARM, as Vivante has launched its Vega series graphics chip technology for mobile devices based on the Android and Chrome operating systems.

Much like ARM, Vivante licenses its chip architecture in the form of cores to other chip makers, who take the cores and design full chips around them for a variety of applications. Also like ARM, Vivante has targeted its chip architecture at low-power applications, and that feature has become more important over time as battery life becomes a key issue in mobile devices. But Vivante has a big rival in Imagination Technologies, whose designs were used in 525 million chips last year.