california united states products semiconductor intellectual property website www.vivantecorp.com vivante corporation is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in sunnyvale california with an r & d center in shanghai china . the company was founded in 2004 as giquila and focused on the portable gaming market . the company s first product was a directx compatible graphics processing unit gpu capable of playing pc games . in 2007 giquila changed its name to vivante and changed the direction of the company to focus on the design and licensing of embedded graphics processing unit designs . the company is licensing its mobile visual reality to semiconductor solution providers that serve embedded computing markets for mobile gaming high definition home entertainment image processing and automotive display and entertainment . vivante is named as a contributor to the hsa heterogeneous system architecture foundation . 1 in 2015 verisilicon holdings co. ltd. to acquire vivante corporation in all stock transaction . 2 contents 1 products 2 adoption 3 linux support 4 see also 5 references 6 external links products edit since changing directions vivante has developed a range of gpu cores that are compliant with the opengl es 1.1 and 2.0 standards as well as the openvg standard . created by verisilicon support for the vulkan api 1.0 and for openvx 1.0 is provided for at least 6 major desktop and embedded operating systems . 3 2d graphics products & vector gpus summarized by the vendor under the term composition processing cores cpc 4 sometimes mentioned with the feature of single pass composition blending capability of 8 or higher are the gc300 5 gc320 gc350 6 and gp355 openvg core 7 with the additional listing of gc200 and gc420 . 8 nxp further mentiones gc255 in a presentation for their i.mx models . 9 the nxp i.mx8 series will come with 2 units of the gc7000lite or gc7000 vector processor . 10 11 for 3d graphics products please see the table below . legend for the notes in below listing pipelined fp int double 64 bit single high 32 bit and half precision medium 16 bit precision ieee formats for gpu compute and hdr graphics source 12 series model date shader cores sp half mode silicon area mm2 config core 3 core clock max in mhz shader clock max in mhz fillrate bus width bit hsa features api version video codecs shader gflops high sp medium half usage m triangles s g vertices s gp s gt s opengl es openvg opencl opengl direct3d mpeg 2 h. 264 hevc vp8 vp9 daala gcnano gcnano lite 1 vec 4 0.3 28 nm 400 28hpm 400 28hpm 40 0.1 0.2 3.2 gcnano 1 vec 4 0.5 28 nm 400 28hpm 400 28hpm 40 0.1 0.2 2.0 3.2 13 gcnano ultra vega lite gcnano ultra mid 1 vec 4 1 28 nm 400 28hpm 800 28hpm 80 0.2 0.4 3.0 6.4 gcnano ultra3 high 1 vec 4 1.6 28 nm 400 28hpm 800 28hpm 80 0.2 0.4 6.4 gc200 gc200 0.57 65 nm 14 250 65nmlp 375 65nmg 0.375 32 16 2.0 1.1 n a 3.0 2.1 11 jz4760 15 gc400 gc400 1 vec 4 4 vec 1 1.4 2 65 nm 16 250 65nmlp 375 65nmg 19 0.094 0.188 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 6 12 nxp i.mx6 solox gc400t gc500 17 32 16 pxa920 gc530 gc600 gc600 1 vec 4 4 vec 1 32 16 1.2 1.1 3.0 2.1 11 cubox gc800 gc800 1 vec 4 4 vec 1 2.5 3.38 65 nm 18 800 28hpm 250 65nmlp 375 65nmg 1000 28hpm 38 65nmg 0.188 65nmg 0.375 65nmg 32 16 3.1 19 optional 3.0 2.1 11 8 16 20 rk291x atm7013 atm7019 gc860 1 vec 4 4 vec 1 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 jz4770 gcw zero novo7 gc880 1 vec 4 4 vec 1 35 0.1 0.266 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 3.2 21 nxp i.mx6 solo and duallite gc 000 gc1000 vega lite 2 vec 4 8 vec 1 3.5 4.26 65 nm 22 800 28hpm 500 65nmlp 750 65nmg 1000 28hpm 123 58 65nmg 0.5 0.375 65nmg 0.8 0.75 65nmg 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 16 atm7029 gc1000 marvell pxa986 23 pxa988 pxa1088 24 gc2000 4 vec 4 16 vec 1 6.9 800 28hpm 1000 28hpm 267 1 1.6 32 16 1.2 3.0 2.1 11 32 nxp i.mx6 dual and quad gc4000 8 vec 4 32 vec 1 12.4 25 800 28hpm 1000 28hpm 267 2 1.6 8 3.0 2.1 11 64 hisilicon k3v2 vega x gc3000 vega 1x 4 8 vec 4 16 32 vec 1 800 28hpm 1000 28hpm 267 1 1.6 8 4 3.0 2.1 11 32 64 26 nxp s32v234 27 gc5000 vega 2x 8 16 vec 4 32 64 vec 1 800 28hpm 1000 28hpm 267 1 1.6 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 64 128 marvell pxa1928 28 gc6000 vega 4x gc6400 16 32 vec 4 64 128 vec 1 800 28hpm 1000 28hpm 533 4 3.2 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 128 256 gc7000 vega 8x 29 gc7000 ultralite gc1500 30 8 vega 0.5 0.8 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 16 32 marvell pxa1908 31 gc7000 lite gc7000l 16 vega 1 1.6 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 32 64 marvel pxa1936 32 nxp i.mx 8quadplus nxp i.mx 8quad gc7000 32 vega 800 28hpm 1000 28hpm 1067 2 6.4 3.2 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 64 128 nxp i.mx 8quadmax gc7200 64 vega 4 6.4 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 128 256 gc7400 128 vega 8 12.8 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 256 512 gc7600 256 vega 16 25.6 32 16 3.0 2.1 11 512 1024 gc8000 gc8000 series model date shader cores sp half mode silicon area mm2 config core 3 core clock max in mhz shader clock max in mhz fillrate bus width bit hsa features api version video codecs shader gflops high sp medium half usage m triangles s g vertices s gp s gt s opengl es openvg opencl opengl direct3d mpeg 2 h. 264 hevc vp8 vp9 daala adoption edit they have announced that as of 2009 they have at least fifteen licensees who have used their gpus in twenty embedded designs . 33 application processors using vivante gpu technology marvell armada range of socs 34 freescale i.mx6 series 35 ingenic semiconductor jz4770 36 ict godson 2h 37 38 rockchip rk2918 actions semiconductor atm7029 hisilicon k3v2 infotm imap 210 39 linux support edit main article free and open source graphics device driver vivante there are no plans on writing a new drm kms driver kernel driver for the vivante hardware since vivante previously put out their linux kernel component under the gnu general public license gpl instead of maintaining it as a proprietary blob . the free gallium3d style device driver etna viv has surpassed vivante s own proprietary user space driver in some benchmarks . citation needed it supports vivante s product line of gc400 series gc800 series gc1000 series gc2000 series and gc4000 series . 40 see also edit powervr available as sip block to 3rd parties mali available as sip block to 3rd parties adreno found only on qualcomm snapdragon could be available as sip block to 3rd parties tegra family of socs for mobile computers the graphics core could be available as sip block to 3rd parties atom family of socs with intel graphics core not licensed to 3rd parties amd mobile apus with amd graphics core not licensed to 3rd parties references edit http hsafoundation.com hsa heterogeneous system architecture foundation verisilicon to acquire vivante corporation in all stock transaction . vivante corporation . 2015 10 12 . archived from the original on 2015 10 14 . retrieved 2015 10 14 . verisilicon embedded vivante dedicated vision ip composition processing cores cpc chipestimate.com gc300 chipestimate.com gc350 vector graphics gpus gpus comparison arm mali vs vivante gcxxx vs powervr sgx vs nvidia geforce ulp 2d and 3d graphics in freescale devices linder brad 6 october 2016 . nxp s 64 bit i.mx8 chips coming in q1 2017 . liliputing . retrieved 6 october 2016 . i.mx8 factsheet pdf . nxp . nxp . retrieved 6 october 2016 . vivante vega 3d technology section unified shader architecture gc nano overview chipestimate.com gc200 mobile gpu vivante graphics ... chipestimate.com gc400 business wire company profile for vivante corporation chipestimate.com gc800 vivante shipping gpu cores designed to support the latest opengl es 3.0 specification . retrieved september 13 2014 . streamcomputing knowledge sdks vivante gpu freescale i.mx6 nxp response on forum topic i.mx6sdl gc880 performance . chipestimate.com gc1000 http system on a chip.findthedata.org l 161 marvell pxa986 mobile gpu vivante graphics ... gpus comparison arm mali vs vivante gcxxx vs powervr sgx vs nvidia geforce ulp vivante vega cores for gpgpu 3d nxp s32v230 family of processors for advanced driver assistance systems http www.cnx software.com 2014 02 26 marvell armada mobile pxa1928 soc features four cortex a53 cores vivante gc5000 gpu and lte vivante unveils details about gc7000 series gpu ip family marvell extends lte lineup http gfxbench.com device.jsp benchmark gfx30 & os android & api gl & d samsung sm j100f & testgroup info marvell extends lte lineup vivante corporation signs 15th gpu licensee press release . june 8 2009 . retrieved july 8 2009 . vivante gpus power marvell armada application processors press release . october 27 2009 . retrieved february 1 2010 . vivante gpu ip cores power the latest freescale i.mx 6 series of application processors press release . april 26 2011 . retrieved july 31 2011 . vivante gpu core brings android 3.0 honeycomb support to ingenic s latest jz4770 application processor press release . june 13 2011 . retrieved december 13 2011 . chinese academy of sciences selects vivante as gpu partner for netbooks press release . june 29 2009 . retrieved december 13 2011 . guess what is ready for tape out it has a mips core and a gpu from vivante . april 28 2011 . retrieved december 13 2011 . . infotm . retrieved 2015 10 06 . etna pipe is currently compatible with at least the following gc chips . external links edit vivante official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vivante corporation & oldid 742913608 categories companies established in 2004graphics hardware companiesgraphics processing unitscompanies based in sunnyvale californiafabless semiconductor companieshsa foundation memberstechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areahidden categories use mdy dates from november 2014all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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