PowerVR
PowerVR is a family of graphics processing units (GPUs) developed by Imagination Technologies. The PowerVR name originated in the mid-1990s with chips marketed by VideoLogic and later by Imagination Technologies after acquiring the IP. It is known for pioneering tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR), a pipeline design that renders 3D scenes in small tiles and defers shading to reduce memory bandwidth and power consumption, making it well suited to mobile and embedded devices.
PowerVR GPUs have been widely used in mobile devices and embedded systems. The architecture has evolved through
Competition has included ARM's Mali, Qualcomm's Adreno, and NVIDIA's Tegra/Jetson lines in the mobile and embedded