News Imagination quits RISC-V CPU business to focus on GPUs and AI

[Admin]

No more RISC-V CPUs for Imagination Technologies as the company divests its Catapult business.

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[artk2219]

They didn't even give it 4 years, that initiative needed to have 5 or 6 years minimum to see tangible results. I guess they just want to reap the benefits of everyone else's labour without having to contribute a bunch themselves.

 

[bit_user]

Oops. They had a compelling business case behind this, which was to be a one-stop-shop for all the IP needed to make a SoC, similar to what ARM has long done. Even if their RISC-V cores weren't the most competitive, they merely needed to be decent, for a lot of embedded applications.

The only possible upside I can see to this is perhaps making themselves cheaper, in hopes of getting picked up as a GPU-provider by someone who already has custom RISC-V cores, like SiFive. However, I think SiFive is probably in no position to make such an acquisition.

Gosh, Imagination really does seem to be circling the drain, these days.