Apple revives relationship with Imagination Technologies, the UK chip designer it ditched in 2017

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Apple revives relationship with Imagination Technologies, the UK chip designer it ditched in 2017
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Imagination Technologies announced a new license agreement with Apple that will grant the company access to its intellectual property.

Apple decided to end its relationship with the firm in 2017 to design GPUs, or graphics chips, in-house.

It's unclear what intellectual property Apple will gain access to as a result of the new licensing deal.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imageswill start working again with British chip designer Imagination Technologies, years after dissolving its relationship with the firm. In a short statement Thursday, Imagination Technologies announced a "new multi-year license agreement under which Apple has access to a wider range of Imagination's intellectual property in exchange for license fees."

The semiconductor company previously designed GPUs, which are graphics chips, for Apple's iPhones and iPads, but Apple decided to cut ties with the firm in 2017 to develop such processing units in-house. Whether this move was ultimately successful remains unclear.

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