Thanks to that – and because Apple have invested twice in Imagination Technologies – people are now speculating that the SGX545, not the new NVIDIA Tegra 2, will be powering the Apple iSlate tablet. It would require a companion processor – an ARM Cortex A9 is most likely, the same as found in the Tegra 2 – but offer a significant graphics boost over the current SGX535 in the iPhone 3GS: up from 28 million polygons per second to 40 million.
The real kicker? Imagination say “the IP is already proven in silicon in a test chip” as well as being “licensed by a lead partner”; no names mentioned, but you can imagine that’s got more than a few people pointing in the direction of Cupertino. We’ll have to wait until later in the month to find out – Apple are rumored to be announcing the iSlate on January 27th.
Imagination PowerVR SGX545 to be in the Apple iSlate?
Posted on Saturday, January 09 2010 @ 16:37 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck