The withering death of Imagination Technologies isn't just bad for the UK tech industry either, IMO it slowed the progress of graphics technology, at least on m

The withering death of Imagination Technologies isn't just bad for the UK tech industry either, IMO it slowed the progress of graphics technology, at least on mobile. I think it's inevitable that Apple would have taken all their graphics work in-house (as they did eventually) but given how successful the PowerVR chipset family was on mobile for a long time - and how robust their tech and overall design were - I suspect they could have kept doing well if the company remained well-funded and well-operated. Not only was Apple shipping their tech in phones, but Sony was shipping it in every PlayStation Vita as well. In another world, I could imagine the Nintendo Switch running on PowerVR tech. Instead, it's an NVIDIA SoC (not a bad one, to be fair)