Adreno

Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in a variety of their SoCs. The core was initially developed under the Imageon brand name by ATI Technologies, which was acquired by AMD in 2006. After AMD sold the division in January 2009, Qualcomm rebranded Imageon to Adreno, which is a anagram of AMD's own graphics-brand Radeon.(MHz)(FP32)(SIMDs)(2)166 MHz(2)200 MHz(4)300 MHz(4)333 MHz(8)333 MHz(8)500 MHz384-533 MHz400 MHz533 MHz533 MHz667 MHzSnapdragon 427 (MSM8920)533 MHz600 MHz800 MHz667-933 MHz933 MHz800 MHz1600 MHz800 MHz800 MHz933 MHz16‑bit (32-bit)32‑bit (64-bit)32‑bit (64-bit)Snapdragon 653 (MSM8976PRO)1866 MHz1866 MHzSnapdragon 821 (MSM8996PRO)1866 MHz16‑bit (32-bit)16‑bit (32-bit)16‑bit (32-bit)16‑bit (32-bit)2133 MHz1866 MHz2133 MHz2133 MHz(MHz)(FP32)(SIMDs) Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in a variety of their SoCs. The core was initially developed under the Imageon brand name by ATI Technologies, which was acquired by AMD in 2006. After AMD sold the division in January 2009, Qualcomm rebranded Imageon to Adreno, which is a anagram of AMD's own graphics-brand Radeon. The company offers the GPU in various flavors as component of their Snapdragon SoCs: There are proprietary drivers for the Linux-based mobile operating system Android available from Qualcomm themselves.Historically only way to have GPU support on non-android Linux was with libhybris wrapper. Linux and Mesa supports Adreno 200/300/400/500 series of GPUs with a driver called 'freedreno. Freedreno allows fully open source graphics on devices like 96Boards Dragonboard 410c and Nexus 7 (2013) The Imageon (previously ATI Imageon) is a line of media processors developed by ATI providing graphics acceleration and other multimedia features for handheld devices such as mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). Designed as system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Imageon line of media processors was introduced in 2002 to bring integrated graphics (from 2D in 2002 to 3D in latest products) to handheld devices, cellphones and tablet PCs. The system-on-a-chip design incorporates an embedded CPU core, baseband sub-system CPU interface, memory controller, power management (ATI PowerPlay), internal RAM and stacked RAM with memory buffer, two display engines (for dual monitors on cellphones), imaging engine, image/video/audio capture engine, TV and audio output, dual digital signal processors for audio and video, and video acceleration engine. The Imageon line was rebranded under AMD, after AMD acquired ATI in Q3 2006, as AMD Imageon, with official claims to have shipped nearly 250 million Imageon units to customers since 2003. However, as a result of company restructuring, AMD divested the handheld chipset business starting from the second quarter of 2008, thus the line is deemed officially discontinued. At the end of 2008, the handheld branch was sold off to Qualcomm, following an earlier sale of the Xilleon branch to Broadcom. AMD retained the Imageon name and will provide support for existing customers, although no future Imageon products will be introduced.