Imagination joins the AI race with new products

This week, following on from its ‘soft launch’ of the PowerVR Series2NX inferencing accelerator architecture late last year, Imagination Technologies has delivered on its promise of real products during 2018 with two IP cores announced. Just as significantly, IMG has confirmed that they have two customers, including one in China.  The AX2185 and AX2145 target high- and low-end applications, respectively, with the 2185 aimed at high-end smartphone and automotive, and the smaller 2145 tailored for the cost-sensitive mid-range smartphone, DTV and smart camera/consumer security markets. The Series 2NX architecture scales from one to eight compute pipelines so with the higher