Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Pixelworks provides video and pixel processing technology with semiconductors and software. It also collaborates with companies such as vivo to develop independent image processing chips. Earlier, it announced its plan to promote mobile gaming experience.IRX brand website, to promote its IRX gaming experience technology that combines software and hardware technologies to make mobile game graphics smooth and realistic.
IRX gaming experience technology is based on the integration of software and hardware resources. Through a distributed graphics rendering architecture and IRX's unique rendering acceleration solution, mobile games on mobile phones or tablets can be presented with smoother high frame refresh rates, desktop-level visual realism, and higher image resolution, while also maintaining a balance between visual performance and device power consumption.
According to the description, IRX gaming experience technology will be paired with Pixelworks' image processing chip as an independent hardware rendering acceleration element to share the image rendering work that originally needed to be performed by the CPU and GPU, thereby achieving higher picture rendering effects under limited power consumption.
Similar effects, such as NVIDIA's DLSS, Intel's XeSS, and AMD's FSR technology operating modes, will allow games that originally only performed at lower resolutions and frame rates to run at higher resolutions and higher frame rates without affecting the device's existing power consumption performance.
Pixelworks has currently launched image processing chips including Pixelworks X5, Pixelworks X7, and Pixelworks X7 Gen 2, which are used in OnePlus's OnePlus 12 international version, OnePlus Ace 3, OnePlus 12 Chinese market version, OnePlus Ace 2 Pro, OnePlus Ace 3 Pro, as well as realme GT5 and Xiaomi's Redmi K60 Ultra. They are also used in Honor 90 GT and Transsion's Infinix GT 20 Pro.
As for compatible games, they include "Diablo Immortal", "Total Football", "Apocalypse: Infinite Journey", "Crystal of Atlan", "Planet: Reboot", "One Piece: Burning Blood", "Mobile Legends", "Jian Wang 3 Unbound", "Honor of Kings" and "Persona: Night Phantom".
