{"id":205430,"date":"2017-04-03T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205430"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T08:50:38","slug":"apple-dropping-imagination-tech-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/205430-apple-dropping-imagination-tech-graphics.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple dropping Imagination Tech graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has informed\u00a0Imagination Technologies it will stop using its graphics technology in its iPhone and other products, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-imagntn-tchnlgs-apple-idUSKBN1750HR\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u00a0said it will\u00a0make the change in under\u00a0two years.<\/p>\n<p>Imagination&#8217;s tech has\u00a0formed the basis of the graphics processor units in Apple&#8217;s phones, tablets, watches, and iPods for many years, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u00a0said it has been working on an independent graphics processor design. This will give it greater control over its products and reduce its reliance on Imagination&#8217;s technology.<\/p>\n<p>Imagination asked Apple to provide evidence that it will no longer require its technology without violating its\u00a0patents and intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>No evidence has been forthcoming, and Imagination said Apple&#8217;s notice\u00a0has\u00a0triggered talks on &#8220;alternative commercial arrangements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/205410-apple-looking-at-premium-pay-tv-bundle.html\">Apple looking at premium pay TV bundle<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has informed Imagination Technologies it will stop using its graphics technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[605,42340,1125],"class_list":["post-205430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-apple","tag-imagination-technologies","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205452,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205430\/revisions\/205452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}