Imagination Technologies has announced that it has submitted POWERVR SGX drivers for OpenCL 1.0 Embedded Profile conformance with Khronos. OpenCL capability will be available to POWERVR SGX licensees with the latest release of production drivers.

Imagination Technologies reports that over 100 products are now shipping using its POWERVR SGX graphics acceleration technology. This year will be the year in which OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics overtakes OpenGL ES 1.1 devices in terms of new deployments. Dr. Jon Peddie, president, Jon Peddie Research says “Simply put: Imagination’s POWERVR is the standard for mobile 3D graphics.”

Imagination Technologies has demonstrated an optimised Flash Player 10.1 for mobile and embedded devices, utilising OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The demonstration took place at MWC 2010 in Barcelona on application processors with the POWERVR SGX graphics processor.

ALT Software, an embedded graphics leader won the contract to develop OpenGL ES and Open VG device drivers for POWERVR SGX graphics IP core in next-generation System on Chip processor designed for high performance in power constrained devices. ALT Software has been developing OpenGL and Safety-Critical 2D and 3D solutions since 1994.

ALT Software has released optimized OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.1 graphics drivers for Imagination Technologies POWERVR MBX graphics core. The drivers are designed to work on Wind River’s VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems.

Imagination Technologies is working with Futuremark to make the Kanzi UI engine and toolkit available to members of Imagination’s POWERVR Insider developer ecosystem. Kanzi takes full advantage of Imagination’s POWERVR graphics acceleration technologies for both OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 and OpenVG 1.1.