Vivante Corporation

"Vivante" redirects here. For the similar-sounding term, see Vivant (disambiguation).

Vivante Corporation
Founded2004; 20 years ago (2004)
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
,
United States
ProductsSemiconductor intellectual property
ParentVeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
Websiteverisilicon.com/en/IPPortfolio/VivanteGPUIP

Vivante Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an R&D center in Shanghai, China. The company was founded in 2004 as GiQuila and focused on the portable gaming market. The company's first product was a DirectX-compatible graphics processing unit (GPU) capable of playing PC games. In 2007, GiQuila changed its name to Vivante and shifted the direction of the company to the design and licensing of embedded graphics processing unit designs. The company licensed its Mobile Visual Reality to semiconductor solution providers, serving embedded computing markets for mobile gaming, high-definition home entertainment, image processing, and automotive display and entertainment.

Vivante used to be named as a contributor to the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation.[1]

In 2015, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. acquired Vivante Corporation in an all-stock transaction.[2]

  1. ^ "HSA Foundation home page". December 20, 2013. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013.
  2. ^ "VeriSilicon to Acquire Vivante Corporation in All-Stock Transaction". Vivante Corporation. October 12, 2015. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2015.