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Things move fast in the world of graphics. We announced the first PowerVR Rogue licensable GPU IP in 2012, a year after revealing the microarchitecture, and we’d been working on it for some time before that. Six years on from peeling back the covers on PowerVR SGX’s successor and it’s still going strong; you’ll find its most recent incarnations today at the heart of Series7XT and Series8XE. GPUs might be one of the fastest moving parts in today’s modern application processors in terms of their performance and feature set, but underlying that there’s a longer timespan to the whole endeavour of creating and shipping one. Especially when it comes down to the real nuts and bolts of the ideas embodied in its microarchitecture.

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