Leeder has had senior leadership roles for PowerVR for over a decade, guiding the evolution of PowerVR’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and advances into AI technologies. He is the first senior appointment by Imagination’s new CEO Dr. Leo Li since he joined the company in April 2018.
Commenting Dr. Leo Li, said of his appointment: “Since Imagination first began creating GPUs, it has had a huge impact, with over six billion PowerVR cores shipped. Nigel has been a driving force behind the success of PowerVR and we are delighted to see him now lead the team. PowerVR has been the first to many milestones, the first commercial tile based deffered renderer, the first mobile 3D GPU, the first mobile HD video solution and now the first variable precision mobile AI accelerator.”
In response Nigel Leeder said: “We have an aggressive plan to deliver ground-breaking performance and efficiency, and to expand into new and exciting markets.
"The combination of our GPU, compute and AI technologies puts Imagination in the position to fire up markets from mobile to consumer, automotive, autonomous systems and smart vision, and with exciting partnerships we have established in the USA, Europe and across Asia. We are confident this is the start of an exciting phase in technology development, driven from Imagination.”
