wraggster
August 28th, 2014, 15:13
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/d34f35c740495ee34f0833e5b7e1b35b/200644543/MIPS-Creator-C120_RGB.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/27/imagination-tech-mips-dev-board/)
Grab someone in the street and ask them about Imagination Technologies and they're more likely to run away than tell you that it's the company that designs the graphics chips for Apple's mobile devices. The company is more than just the home of PowerVR (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/02/ipad-4th-generation-found-carrying-new-powervr-sgx-554mp4-gpu/), however, and bought MIPS in order to become a direct rival to ARM (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/06/imagination-technologies-scoops-up-chip-designer-mips/), its more famous UK chip-design neighbor. Now, the company has decided to produce a Raspberry Pi-styledevelopment board (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/03/hummingboard-solid-run/) in the hope of taking MIPS mainstream, describing it as "Raspberry Pi on steroids." Aside from the differences in hardware and chip architecture between the two devices, there's one big change in approach: Imagination Technologies is giving its board away for free.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/27/imagination-tech-mips-dev-board/
Grab someone in the street and ask them about Imagination Technologies and they're more likely to run away than tell you that it's the company that designs the graphics chips for Apple's mobile devices. The company is more than just the home of PowerVR (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/02/ipad-4th-generation-found-carrying-new-powervr-sgx-554mp4-gpu/), however, and bought MIPS in order to become a direct rival to ARM (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/06/imagination-technologies-scoops-up-chip-designer-mips/), its more famous UK chip-design neighbor. Now, the company has decided to produce a Raspberry Pi-styledevelopment board (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/03/hummingboard-solid-run/) in the hope of taking MIPS mainstream, describing it as "Raspberry Pi on steroids." Aside from the differences in hardware and chip architecture between the two devices, there's one big change in approach: Imagination Technologies is giving its board away for free.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/27/imagination-tech-mips-dev-board/