Chinese-backed Investment Firm Acquires Imagination Technologies for £550m...

Chinese-backed Investment Firm Acquires Imagination Technologies for £550m... xda-developers Sep 25, 2017 11:00 PM • by Doug Lynch Chinese-backed Investment Firm Acquires Imagination Technologies for £550m Imagination Technologies hit mainstream success when Apple chose to use their technology in the iPhone. For years Apple would design their own CPUs while licensing Imagination's PowerVR GPU technology in the company's A series chips. This obviously was quite a successful partnership for them, but just like the custom CPUs that Apple uses, they eventually decided to design their own GPUs as well. This year we saw three new iPhones announced that decided to move away from Imagination's PowerVR GPUs. We first learned about this split up earlier this year and it resulted in the company's shares dropping by nearly 70% overnight. When you're making money hand over fist like that, it can be easy to forget that you have put all of your proverbial eggs in one basket. You can see how devastating it was for the company to hear that Apple would not be licensing the company's GPU technology anymore. This resulted in Imagination Technologies' June announcement about how they have put the company up for sale. This hasn't stopped them from developing new technology though, as we recently learned about their jump into the neural network market with the PowerVR Series 2NX Neural Network Accelerator. So after many meetings, they have decided to accept an acquisition offer from the Chinese-backed investment firm Canyon Bridge. This deal is for £550m and seems incredibly low for the company who supplied the sole GPU in Apple's iPhone for years. The two are satisfied with this acquisition as the boss of Imagination Technologies, Andrew Heath, says it was a good outcome and it would allow the team to remain in the United Kingdom and continue their work. Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be any plans to cut jobs at the Hertfordshire-based offices once the takeover has been completed. It will be interesting to see what they can do with this team and the technology they produce now that Apple is no longer the biggest customer for their GPUs. Source: BBC Android Advices Sep 22, 2017 6:49 PM • by Karunakar Donthamshetti Google Announces new feature for enterprise customers, Zero-touch enrollment For running the business, we need the smartphones or computers to set up the management software with the relevant security protocols which would take a long time. So, avoiding this long time process to set up the device, Google has introduced the new way for enterprise customers to the Android devices, this new method is called as Zero-touch enrollment. This new feature would be eliminating the device setup manually, which means this new feature allowed to have the device configure itself. Now, this new program is now available in the U.S. on the Verizon wireless and this new feature would bring the devices like Huawei Mate 10, Sony Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z1 Compact Soon. It will also join soon in other carriers in U.S like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint carriers. Also, Google is working on getting this new feature with the other handset makers like Huawei, Sony, LG Electronics, HTC, Motorola, Honeywell, and Zebra, and the Samsung company would get this feature which phone would be released with Android 8.0 Oreo OS and above. From today onwards, Verizon carriers would offer this feature on the Google pixel devices. This new program would also be soon available in the countries like England, Germany, Japan and Australia with their respective mobile carriers. This enrollment would be the preconfigured for the devices which companies can choose a leading enterprise mobility management (EMM) provider like VMware AirWatch, BlackBerry, MobileIron, IBM, SOTI, GSuite, or others. After then, the device policies are applied in the initial setup, before it shipped to the device to the customer. This email has been sent by Froze ONE (isnanmm0@gmail.com). It is the potion result of 'Tech: Topic watch' from the dashboard 'Personal Dashboard', tab 'Tech > Android'. Unsubscribe © Netvibes 2005-2017 | Terms of service | Privacy Policy Find Netvibes also on: Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr

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