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Imagination Blog
Company blog · blog.imaginationtech.comhardwaresystems
Imagination Blog is the company blog at blog.imaginationtech.com, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked posts cover technical GPU and neural network topics: self-compressing neural networks, and hardware ray tracing in PowerVR GPUs. Comments cite them as sources, with no judgment of the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Blog post on the subject by author https://blog.imaginationtech.com/self-compressing-neural-net...
Comment linking /self-compressing-neural-networks
on “Self-Compressing Neural Networks”Submitted Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThey are not very well known but they developed the first GPU with hardware ray tracing. They had HW ray tracing accelerators in 2013: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/146781-imagination-techno... and GPU designs with HW ray tracing in 2014: https://blog.imaginationtech.com/launching-ray-tracing-power... Apple's GPUs are also based on this architecture: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15272/imagination-and-apple-s.…
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on “What the new PowerVR driver means for mobile”Submitted Designing GPUs for Developers: A Conversation with Godot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnyone have more info on the Imagination BXE-4-32 GPU this is using, especially the availability of open-source Linux drivers? A few months ago the Imagination site had a press release[0] about upstreaming graphics drivers to Linux which mentioned "B-Series" and "BXS-4-64" -- is that close enough to the BXE-4-32 that driver compatibility can be expected? I tried searching through the kernel source for 'BXS' and 'Ima…
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on “VisionFive 2 – High-performance RISC-V dev board with an integrated 3D GPU”Submitted Building Custom Graphics Cards for Cloud Gaming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look at the PowerVR Graphics Architecture: Tile-Based Deferred Rendering as a story · 1 points
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