Vivante Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an R&D center in Shanghai, China.
The company's first product was a DirectX-compatible graphics processing unit (GPU) capable of playing PC games.
Created by VeriSilicon support for the Vulkan API 1.0 and for OpenVX 1.0 is provided for at least 6 major desktop and embedded operating systems.
[3] 2D graphics products & Vector GPUs, summarized by the vendor under the term "Composition Processing Cores" (CPC),[4] sometimes mentioned with the feature of single pass composition blending capability of 8 or higher, are the GC300,[5] GC320, GC350[6] and GP355 (OpenVG core[7])with the additional listing of GC200 and GC420.
[32] Application processors using Vivante GPU technology: After Vivante was sold to VeriSilicon the Arcturus GC8000 series was released by VeriSilicon, which supports newer technologies such as OpenCL 3.0, OpenVX 1.2, OpenVG 1.1, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenGL 4.0 and Vulkan 1.1.