Day May 2, 2016 will go down in the history of Russian microelectronics. The
British-American company Imagination Technologies released a
press release stating that the Russian client of Imagination, ELVIS-NeoTech, produces an advanced chip for video analytics of 28 nanometers, using both Imagination units (MIPS processors, PowerVR graphics processors and others) and blocks , designed by Elvisovtsy in Zelenograd. The chip is called ELVEES Image Semantic Engine (ELISE):



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Russian translation of the discussion on Facebook:

The relationship between Imagination and ELVIS originally grew out of LiveJournal comments made in 2010 by engineers Yuri Panchul and Sergey Vakulenko. Yuri Panchul worked at that time as an engineer at MIPS Technologies in Sunnyvale, California; in 2013, MIPS Technologies became the MIPS business unit of Imagination. Sergey Vakulenko in 2009 lived in Moscow and worked including in ELVIS; He now works at the Imagination office in Santa Clara, California. It was through their efforts that the companies began to communicate, and in 2011 the first MIPS visit to Moscow took place. A couple of photos of different years:
The first historical commentary in LJ:

The first meeting of MIPS and ELVIS in 2011. In the photo in particular, President ELVIS Yaroslav Petrichkovich (fourth from left):

It is a pity that I can not bring pictures of engineers in Zelenograd, Santa Clara, Oregon and Kings-Langley, who did all this - they are the main characters of the news.
See also the entry in the official
ELVEES blog
goes full purple: MIPS, PowerVR and mid 2015.
The new chip is an example of the Russian-American-British-Taiwan cooperation, in which not only the system-on-a-chip system is developed in Russia, but also the development of several key units on a chip (semiconductor IP). That is what gives him a place in history and an opportunity for Zelenograd engineers to work on the Hamburg bill, with the possibility of bringing advanced Russian developments to the world market.