HMP utilizing asymmetric processor SoC gets Imagination's support

Imagination Technologies said it recognizes its partner MediaTek Inc. for its unique deployment of heterogeneous processing. Confirmed by leading industry sources, Imagination sees the company’s new MT8135 SoC as the industry’s first publicly announced mobile SoC enabling heterogeneous multi-processing (HMP) utilizing asymmetric processor configurations. This innovative SoC features Imagination’s latest generation PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ graphics processor (GPU). True heterogeneous multi-processors enable dynamic configuration of the operating modes of CPUs of varying capabilities, GPUs, and other processing engines in the system, to ensure ideal task allocation, optimal performance and minimal power consumption under all real workload conditions. Imagination believes that by utilizing true heterogeneous multi-processor technologies, the full potential of all the complex processing resources of an SoC can be realised. This can be seen in applications such as GPU compute, where Imagination has demonstrated power savings in excess of 30% with 2x performance gain when the higher performance and lower power consumption of PowerVR GPUs are used to augment the CPU compared to a CPU-only solution. “Heterogeneous processing architectures represent the future of mobile and embedded SoCs. We have been working with MediaTek to advance their HMP technology on multiple fronts – as f...