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Embedded systems get a huge graphics boost today courtesy of Imagination Technologies, who have just announced a new POWERVR SGX545 chip that offers DirectX10.1, OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 3.2, and OpenCL1.0 all on one tiny embedded chip.

Says Tony King-Smith, VP Marketing, Imagination: “Combining our many years of experience in the embedded, mobile and PC-based DirectX graphics worlds, POWERVR SGX 545 takes the possibilities of hand-held graphics to a new level by delivering a full DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.x feature set as well as delivering GPU powered OpenCL heterogeneous parallel processing capabilities for the mobile and embedded markets. This makes POWERVR SGX545 a compelling solution for application processor SoC designers targeting the next generation of netbook and MID mobile products demanding exceptional graphics capabilities.”

If you’re wondering where you’ve heard the name “PowerVR” before, it’s the chip that gives the iPhone 3GS its boost over the iPhone 3G.  Could the iPhone 4 be seeing another big performance boost?

via Imagination Technologies announces POWERVR SGX545 graphics IP core with full DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.0 capabilities.

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Anandtech.com reports that in 2011, AMD will be coming out with an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). What is an APU exactly? Try four CPU cores married to a single GPU. The four CPU cores will be based on the existing Phenom II microarchitecture. The one GPU will be a DirectX 11 class GPU. The APU will be manufactured on a 32nm process at GlobalFoundaries, and is scheduled to arrive in 2011. The code name for the APU is Llano.

Intel is also coming our with their own version of the APU, with the code name Sandy Bridge. Sandy Bridge will use a new microarchitecture for the CPU, and an updated integrated graphics core. Sandy Bridge will be manufactured on a 32nm process, and is due in early 2011.

If one was to handicap this race, then it would be expected that Intel will have a faster CPU with Sandy Bridge. Historically, Intel’s graphics have not always been the best. Thus one could expect that AMD will have a better integrated GPU than Intel.

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