Comments on: Apple buys stake in mobile graphics chip designer

Imagination Technologies, which designs graphics cores for mobile phones, has a new corporate backer after Apple purchased a 3.6 percent stake in the company.

[pkeys1]

The release seems to have been deleted from Imagination's web site.

[Tom Krazit]

Huh, that's weird. It was there this morning, but it has also been pulled from Google's cache. Although, if you enter this into Google's search box without parenthesis (site:www.imgtec.com apple), you can see the first couple of lines on the Google search result.

[Nik00]

This could be a response to Microsofts Tegra efforts..

Microsoft has already announced a mobile graphics powerhouse, the ?Tegra? gpu.. normally Microsoft?s involvement wouldn?t mean much, but the fact that NVIDIA is the company behind the Tegra is HUGE! As they have the budget, expertise and creativity to compete against the POWERVR Graphics capabilities.

Tegra Prototypes (10+ hours playback, true multitasking and full OpenGL ES 2.0 support): http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tegra

[SpiritWater]

A 3.6% stake in the company for $5 million probably was a means to get the company to design specifically for Apple's wares. Why not buy the company in whole like PA Semi, unless Apple wants to just prop the company up and make it a mult-vendor concern.

[JasonAlexander]

Power VR Rox!