Apple breaks up with IMG

The Apple of my eye turns black and blue Imagination Technologies started working with Apple before the iPhone was introduced in June 2007. Samsung was the fab Apple chose to build their first SoC and Samsung already had a license with Imagination, so it was easy to get into production. Later, Apple got its own GPU license in November 2008, for the high-performance version of the PowerVR SGX GPU. Then Apple purchased a 3.6% stake in the company for £3.2 million, to make it difficult for anyone else to acquire Imagination (Intel used a similar tactic). Today, Apple is Imagination’s