ARM and PowerVR dominate GPU and CPU market (Two UK companies)

Pottsey

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It’s nice to see two UK companies doing so well. PowerVR/Imagination Technologies took 82% of the graphics core market while 7.9 billion ARM CPU chips sold in 2011. Both companies look to increase chips shipped by a massive amount.

From a unit shipped point of view Imagination Technologies outsold Nivida and AMD commbined and more Arm CPU’s shipped then Intel. How the markets have changed.

Yet both companies seem to be mostly unheard off. So next time when people go on about what comes out the UK we can say we are world leaders in digital radios, CPU and GPU’s. :cool:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4372693/ARM-dominates-10B-unit-CPU-core-market?pageNumber=0
 
Power VR have been around donkeys back when PC gaming was in it's infancy they had dedicated GPU cards, and quite good one's at that.

I think they pulled out of the market to concentrate on the mobile market.
 
PowerVR has been around for donkeys...

I got a Hercules Kryo II Card and it still works actually...

ARM again is a name that I have known for a while but what hardware I have / had I cannot say.

But its good to see smaller, or lesser known companies come up... Keeps the bigger companies in check.

Cyrix CPU for the win? Ok, maybe not!
 
Krono5 said:
I bet they don't pay much if any tax here though :mad:
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Not sure about ARM but PowerVR seem to be trying to bring in as much business and R&D over here as possible. In Bristol they are working on a new graphics and multimedia R&D facility design centre with the hopes of maximising its UK R&D base long term. As for Tax I don’t find the financial reports very easy to read but it looks like PowerVR (the group as a whole) paid just over £20 million tax for 2011 with an expected large increase in tax for 2012 and another increase the year after if sales keep going up. Plus I assume the vat from Pure radios and other devices sales brought in a lot of money.
 
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