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

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Recently, Intel announced that it will cooperate with Siru Innovations from Finland to help Intel’s graphics division, which “brings decades of experience developing graphics IP and software services that will help support our customers in the areas of MaaS/ADAS, gaming, hyperscale, and more. ” Raja Koduri, Intel’s executive vice president and head of the graphics business, also forwarded the announcement from Intel Graphics and introduced some information about Siru Innovations.

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.

This time Intel announced that Siru Innovations has joined its team. However, it did not specify the specific relationship with Siru Innovations, whether it is in the form of acquisition, equal cooperation, or consulting, and did not disclose the content of the projects that the two parties will carry out.

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