Imagination announces ray tracing technology for licensing

Imagination Technologies announced its PowerVR Ray Tracing technology for licensing to enable state-of-the-art realistic image rendering using light-modeling techniques. The IP is designed to be integrated into GPUs in mobile, automotive, server, and other markets. The technology is part of PowerVR’s ongoing GPU roadmap which delivers what the company is designating PPA (Power Performance Area) solutions. Imagination says the PowerVR Ray Tracing architecture is a high-efficiency approach for the processing of billions of rays per second (“gigarays”). It makes it realistic for SoC manufacturers to offer ray tracing capable hardware within a range of power and thermal envelopes. The technology,