Apple to Stop Using Imagination Technologies Graphics Technology
April 03 2017 - 3:05AM
Dow Jones News
By Rory Gallivan
LONDON--U.K. semiconductor designer Imagination Technologies
Group PLC (IMG.LN) said Monday that major customer Apple Inc.
(AAPL) has told it that it will no longer be using Imagination
technology in its products in two years' time.
Imagination said Apple has informed it that it has been working
on a separate, independent graphics design to control its
products.
Imagination, whose graphics technology is used in Apple phones,
tablets and other devices, said Apple hasn't provided evidence that
it will no longer require Imagination's technology without
violating patents.
Imagination said it believes it would be "extremely challenging"
for Apple to design its own graphics technology without infringing
patents.
The companies are in talks about commercial arrangements,
Imagination said.
Apple last year confirmed that it had held talks about buying
Imagination, but decided not to make an offer.
Imagination designs technology for graphics processing units,
known as GPUs, used in smartphones and other devices and for
central processing units, or CPUs.
-Write to Rory Gallivan at rory.gallivan@wsj.com; Twitter:
@RoryGallivan
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 03, 2017 02:50 ET (06:50 GMT)
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