PowerVR SGX core offers OpenGL 2.0 support with programmable shaders for mobile devices

Category: Processors •

Jul 29, 2005

Imagination Technologies introduced the Power VR SGX Shader Graphics Accelerator cores for wireless devices and smart phones. They offer OpenGL 2.0 shader support in an architecture that merges vertex and pixel shading into a single pipeline. It uses tile based rendering and deferred pixel shading to reduce power consumption for mobile devices.