Imagination's Furian architecture

Article: A Look Inside Apple’s Custom GPU for the iPhone
By: Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com), March 8, 2017 2:29 pm
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Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on March 8, 2017 9:02 am wrote:
> Even if Apple continues to customize so their cores don't exactly resemble any shipping Imagination parts, maybe
> we'll see evidence of Furian in the A11 core, such as pipelines with a MAD and MUL instead of two MADs?

David's article greatly overstated the amount of customization Apple did on the ImgTec core; I'm ready to bet that whatever they ship in their next SoC is still going to be mostly vanilla ImgTec possibly in a configuration that isn't necessarily available as COTS IP.
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