Teleca becomes a preferred integration partner for Imagination Technologies

The two companies combine to offer market-leading embedded graphics and video acceleration to enrich mobile user experiences.

Malmö, Sweden – February 10, 2010 – Teleca, a world-leading supplier of solutions and services to the mobile industry today announced a partnership with Imagination Technologies, the world’s leading supplier of multimedia system-on-chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP). The two companies will work together to provide graphics and video acceleration technologies to device manufacturers, chipset and platform providers who want to offer the richest possible multimedia experiences. As part of the partnership between the two companies, Teleca will become a preferred partner for integrating software relating to the complete portfolio of Imagination Technologies’ graphics, video and other multimedia hardware acceleration technologies using industry standard APIs within mobile and embedded devices. Teleca is creating a Competence Center in graphics and video acceleration using production devices from a range of leading semiconductor vendors incorporating Imagination Technologies’ IPs. The center will add to its expertise in UI to support customers of both companies throughout the world. Customers of both companies will benefit from a seamless service that encompasses every part of the integration process, from initial contact to integration, testing and final delivery. Teleca has the ability to use its offshore centers to scale effectively according to customer demand and reduce overall costs to customers. Industry players will be able to offer compelling, differentiated end-to-end service and application experiences to customers without the need for tying up valuable internal resources. “The market demands services and applications that give the richest possible multimedia experience from a mobile device, regardless of which type of device they are using. By providing engineering services to support the optimization of software drivers and applications leveraging Imagination Technologies’ extensive range of IP for programmable hardware multimedia accelerators we can increase the effective usage of graphics and video acceleration on mobile devices and significantly improve user experiences. This partnership gives our combined customers a competitive edge by offering total solutions that deliver the best possible multimedia experience,” comments Andrew Till, Vice President, Solutions Marketing, Teleca. “Our mission is to deliver all the multimedia technologies powering the world’s most innovative and exciting user experiences on mobile devices. By working closely with Teleca as an integration partner for our software drivers and related SDKs and tools, we can offer our partners a more integrated solution to making the world more engaging and exciting than ever before,” says Tony King-Smith, VP Marketing, Imagination Technologies.