Samsung developing new GPU
Hired new GPU VP to take in-house GPU across finish line.
Jon Peddie, Graphic Speak
July 23, 2018
The demand for talent and the talent’s demand for interesting challenges will never let up, especially in Silicon Valley. One such example is Dr. Chien-Ping Lu, or CP as he’s known among his friends. CP was the developer of Nvidia’s nForce IGP which was a small but powerful GPU in a northbridge chip designed to work with AMD and Intel processors before they put the GPU inside the CPU. CP helped Nvidia to fight against Intel in the IGP war, which ended with a sweet $3B deal for Nvidia. Afterward, CP moved to MediaTek to lead their new in-house GPU design group. He built up a team of designers and engineers in the US and Taiwan and started preparing MediaTek to wean themselves from Arm and Imagination Technologies.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- NFC wireless interface supporting ISO14443 A and B with EEPROM on SMIC 180nm
- PQC CRYSTALS core for accelerating NIST FIPS 202 FIPS 203 and FIPS 204
- AVSBus v1.4.1 Verification IP
- Flipchip 1.8V/3.3V I/O Library with ESD-hardened GPIOs in TSMC 12nm FFC/FFC+
- DDR5 MRDIMM PHY and Controller
Related News
- OmniVision Announces Availability of Optimized Algorithm Library for ARM Mali GPU Technology
- Vivante Announces Support for Vulkan GPU Rendering and Compute Standards
- Cavium Adds Support for NVIDIA GPU Accelerators in 64-bit ARMv8-A ThunderX Processor Family
- iCatch Technology Licenses DMP GPU IP core
Latest News
- Synopsys Issues Statement in Connection to the Lifting of Recent U.S. Export Restrictions Related to China
- Consumer-Tech Brand, Nothing, Taps Ceva’s RealSpace Software to Bring Immersive Spatial Audio to Headphones and Earbuds
- Tenstorrent Acquires Blue Cheetah Analog Design
- Quintauris and WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems Partner to Advance Safety-Critical RISC-V Solutions for Automotive Applications
- Codasip board initiates an expedited process to sell the company