Imagination Technologies Group plc

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Imagination Technologies Group plc
Type
Subsidiary
IndustryTechnology
Founded1985; 37 years ago (1985)
FounderTony Maclaren
Headquarters
Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
,
United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Ray Bingham (Chairman and CEO)
ProductsPowerVR GPU designs
Parent companyCanyon Bridge Capital Partners
DivisionsPowerVR, Ensigma
Websiteimgtec.com

Imagination Technologies Group plc is a semiconductor design company owned by China through Canyon Bridge Capital Partners. It is headquartered in Hertfordshire, UK. Imagination is notable for their PowerVR graphics chips found on a lot of tablets, smartphones, single-board computers and things like that.

Linux Support[edit]

Imagination is not a very Linux-friendly company. It is possible to use their graphics card with a closed-source binary blob. There is no free software support.

Imagination does not submit patches to the Linux kernel or contribute to free software in any other way.