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This is a marketing piece for their new GPU, which has ray casting built into the silicon. It's not clear how to access this new hardware (some OpenGL extension?), but they do mention that their chip gives shaders the ability to cast rays.

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Yes, we are using ray tracing extensions implemented for OpenGL.

You can find the sample code here http://cdn.imgtec.com/OpenRLSDK/OpenRL-Hybrid-Example.zip

Any chance Imagination is considering a Workstation-level product? I understand that mobile is your money maker, but if the hardware is as fast as it sounds, there are some roles that might be really nice to be able to offload onto this sort of hardware.

And how well is the hardware currently handling highly divergent rays? Such as those used in GI or reflections?

Looks like there are some references to the "Caustic Series2" boards. But these look discontinued. It's hard to invest in the technology if it's unsure that there will be continued hardware support. I mean after all, it doesn't take too many generations of hardware for raw Nvidia Titan power to make up for the differences.

The PowerVR Wizard architecture scales from mobile to desktop/console. We will be bringing out dev kits in the near future that will deliver very (very) high performance.

Awesome, I'm very (very) interested.

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