Imagination appoints industry expert to lead PowerVR business unit
January 05 2017 - 11:00AM
EVP Mark Dickinson to build long-term
growth
International CES -- Imagination Technologies
(IMG.L) announces the appointment of industry expert Mark Dickinson
as executive vice president of its PowerVR business unit. Dickinson
brings a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise to the role,
with more than 20 years of management experience in semiconductors
and IP. Dickinson is part of the executive management team put
together by CEO Andrew Heath to deliver long-term growth and
innovation to Imagination.
Andrew Heath, CEO, Imagination says: “As we enter 2017,
Imagination is focused and energized to drive the company to an
even stronger position in the industry. We refocused Imagination in
2016 on our core businesses of PowerVR, MIPS and Ensigma, around
our leading technologies in graphics and multimedia, CPUs and
wireless communication. We are investing in all three businesses to
deliver differentiated solutions to customers for their SoCs.
PowerVR, with its proven history of leadership in graphics and
multimedia as well as innovation in vision technology, is key to
our success. That’s why we’ve brought Mark on board. We believe he
is the right person to steer this new phase of growth and
innovation for PowerVR.”
Mark Dickinson says: “I’m delighted to join Imagination at this
very exciting time for both the company and the PowerVR team. We’re
seeing unprecedented uptake of our XE series of cores for cost
sensitive applications, and we’ll be rolling out a number of
compelling new GPUs this month. I expect PowerVR to continue to
grow in traditionally strong areas such as mobile devices, tablets,
TVs, set-top boxes and automotive, and I see exciting new
opportunities in emerging applications including Advanced Driver
Assisted Systems (ADAS), AR/VR and machine learning.
"With its remarkable scalability and efficiency, as well as
powerful ray tracing, vision and security capabilities, PowerVR
will drive the agenda for innovation in graphics, compute,
multimedia and AI across a growing range of next-generation
products.”
Prior to joining Imagination, Dickinson was vice president and
GM of ARM’s Media Processing Group. In this role he was responsible
for graphics, video, and display products, as well as gaming
middleware. He was previously with Altera Corporation for 15 years
in a number of VP and GM roles, most recently leading product
planning and strategic marketing for their communication products
and IP. Earlier, as GM of the Excalibur Business Unit at Altera, he
was responsible for the company’s embedded processor products and
IP. Prior to Altera, Dickinson was head of the Semiconductor
Products Group at TTPCom. He holds a PhD in electronics from
Birmingham University and a M.A. in physics from Oxford
University.
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About PowerVR multimedia IP Consisting of a
comprehensive range of multimedia IP, from GPUs for graphics and
GPU compute, to video, imaging and vision, PowerVR’s technology
takes data from sensors or CPUs to screen, delivering stunning
images for entertainment, user interfaces and much more. These IP
cores combine to create optimized IP platforms that can incorporate
customer IP to create highly differentiated, state-of-the-art
solutions for all forms of visual experiences from the latest games
to smart IoT cameras.
About Imagination Technologies Imagination is a
global technology leader whose products touch the lives of billions
of people across the globe. The company’s broad range of silicon IP
(intellectual property) includes the key processing blocks needed
to create the SoCs (Systems on Chips) that power all mobile,
consumer and embedded electronics. Its unique multimedia, processor
and connectivity technologies enable its customers get to market
quickly with complete and highly differentiated SoC platforms.
Imagination’s licensees include many of the world’s leading
semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEMs/ODMs who
are creating some of the world’s most iconic products.
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