Intel partners with Siru Innovations to enhance the strength of GPU technology

While Siru Innovations was founded in 2011, its technological roots are much older, with one of the co-founders, Mika Tuomi, a member of the Future Crew. Founded in 1986 as a Commodore 64 development group, Future Crew later moved to the PC to deliver advanced 3D demos that were quite influential at the time, including Unreal (1992), Panic (1992), and Second Reality (1993). Later, the members of Future Crew parted ways, scattered among FutureMark, Remedy, and various hardware and game companies.

Mika Tuomi later founded BitBoys and released Glaze 3D in 1999, hoping to compete with NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 through embedded eDRAM. Later, the project came to a standstill due to the loss of partner Infineon. BitBoys then developed mobile graphics solutions, which were sold to companies such as NEC. In May 2006, AMD acquired BitBoys for $44 million, reorganized it and established a graphics business unit called Imageon, and then sold it to Qualcomm for $65 million in January 2009, which is the technical basis of the later Adreno series of GPUs. In 2011, Mika Tuomi participated in the establishment of Siru Innovations, involving related graphics IP and software services.