Vision Q6

Today’s announcement comes from Cadence, and we see the unveiling of a new DSP IP called the new Tensilica Vision Q6. The Q6 succeeds the Vision P6 which as of late has had quite a success: the P6 is included in HiSilicon Kirin 970 SoC which powers the Mate 10 and P20 devices, and serves as the main imaging processing unit enabling a wide variety of features. As the industry and underlying technology is evolving, we’ve seen a large shift in image processing on mobile devices, which over the last couple of years have been increasingly relying on processing to improve camera capabilities. DSPs are becoming ever more important in smartphone devices and mainstream players such as Qualcomm have touted the advantages for a...