Corporate Social Responsibility At Imagination, we want to make a difference whether it’s raising money for a charity or supporting local initiatives. Our approach to CSR is made up of 3 elements: • Making a difference together – company driven fundraising efforts up to £10,000. • Doing good on our own – fund matching colleagues’ efforts up to £250. • Supporting our local communities – identifying events and initiatives that we can support with funding, our skills and/or time. Our CSR group is employee-led, ensuring we focus on the causes that matter most to our people. During 2022, we supported several charities and good causes donating over £70,000. Check out of 2022 CSR Report, highlighting everything that we’ve got up to!
Imagination Technologies voted #16 in Glassdoor UK Best Places to Work 2023 Awards Imagination is delighted to be recognised in the annual Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, achieving 16th place in the UK’s Top 50 Best Places to Work 2023. Imagination is the only UK semiconductor IP company included in the 2023 awards. Imagination’s initiatives around hybrid working, flexible working and diversity, equality and inclusion make Imagination a truly welcoming place to work. Alongside these core initiatives, a transformation of the global offices, and putting employee engagement on all manager’s objectives have been key to making the company one of the UK’s best places to work. This year Imagination opened new UK offices in Manchester and Cambridge, successful recruiting some of the best engineers in each location. Imagination is also located in Kings Langley (HQ) and Bristol in the UK, as well as globally in Poland, Romania, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, India, and the USA.
Mental Health & Wellbeing At the start of October, we kicked off our latest mental health and wellbeing campaign focused on raising awareness around mental health and promoting positive wellbeing. We launched companywide webinars discussing wellbeing at work, mental health awareness and wellbeing conversations, with further sessions planned. We’re also promoting our Global Employee Assistant Programme, reminding colleagues of the services available. We’ve taken a local approach to wellbeing, encouraging each site to do activities that resonate with them. In our Kings Langley HQ, for example, we’ve started Pilates and meditation classes. We did our first art class this week as creativity can support improved positive emotions and reduce anxiety. In other sites we’re offering Pilates classes, meditation classes and more. We’ve also invested in sensory toys to help with stress and anxiety, while also supporting concentration and focus. We’re progressing our Mental Health First Aiders initiative, which has received a positive response with colleagues eager to take part.
London to Brighton 2022 - Charity Fundraising Early on Sunday 11th September, twenty bleary-eyed edgineers slid into their Imagination jerseys and came together to tackle the challenging London to Brighton cycle ride in aid of the mental health charity, MIND. Cycling 55miles (88km), the team raised over £2,000, with Imagination fund matching their efforts and taking the amount to over £4,000.
Celebrating 30 Years of PowerVR Today we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of PowerVR, the graphics architecture that was first unveiled to the world way back in 1992 and is still making waves today. Back in 2017, when we celebrated our 25th anniversary, we dived into our cupboards and found some fascinating examples of our early technology and memorabilia: Kyro and Dreamcast fans, knock yourself out. For the 30th anniversary, we've brought together some of the longest-serving employees at Imagination, who were around at the start of our PowerVR journey, for a get-together to reminisce about those early times. There are some great stories in there, so be sure to check it out.
Introducing Imagination Open Access Imagination Technologies Open Access program offers access for early-stage companies to select class-leading GPU and AI accelerator IP without any licensing costs. This lowers the barriers of entry to SoC design, enabling scale-ups to create advanced IoT and AI products for applications covering smart homes, industrial designs for smart cities or smart factories, smart kiosks and signage, healthcare tech, and more.
Cost of Living Cost of living is a concern for many people. The leadership team at Imagination is acutely aware of this and the impact it may be having on our people and so are taking steps to support them. First and foremost, if any of our people are struggling financially or mentally, we encourage them to get in touch with their HR Business Partner, line manager or someone else within the business that they feel comfortable talking to in confidence. For employees at the early stages of their careers and those we believe are especially impacted by cost-of-living changes, we are increasing salaries where appropriate. This applies to around 10% of our colleagues. We have also increased the salaries of summer placements in order that these opportunities remain accessible to a wide pool of students. We also have a Global Employee Assistance Program (GEAP) available to all employees and their families, which can provide support on a range of work and personal issues, including financial matters, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.
Enabling Innosilicon’s First High-Performance GPU for Data Centre and Desktop Fantasy One is Innosilicon's first server-level graphics card that’s designed for both desktop and cloud applications. By integrating Imagination's IMG BXT GPU technology, Innosilicon was able to create an incredibly power-efficient solution, that delivers 4K performance in a PCI-E Gen 4 GPU. Thanks to Imaginations GPU’s scalable architecture, it can be tailored to meet the demands of 5G cloud gaming and data centre implementations.
International Women in Engineering Day 2022 International Women in Engineering Day is something we always share at Imagination. Being part of INWED22 gives us to opportunity to celebrate female engineers and highlight the need for more – figures as of June 2021 from the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) show that 16.5% of engineers are women. In 2021 the theme was #engineeringheroes. Highlighting and celebrating the heroes of INWED and their inspirational, real-life, engineering stories. For 2022, WES is looking towards the future, focusing on the inventors and innovators who will change the industry for the better. Imagination invited Giorgia Longobardi, academic and researcher at Cambridge University who also runs Cambridge Gan Devices, to talk about how we can all be inventors and innovators. At Imagination, we have a Women in Tech group the drives change within our business. We’re increasing the number of female role model talks, as well as carrying out mentoring and internal research into how we can help female engineering thrive. We also have several diversity groups.
Imagination Engineer's join Electronics Weekly’s BrightSparks 2022 The EW BrightSparks Awards, a partnership between Electronics Weekly and RS Grass Roots, held its celebratory award event at the headquarters of the IET in central London on Friday 17th June 2022. The awards celebrate the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK. Two of Imagination’s engineers – Mihai Daniel Ivanescu and Ana Claudia Reis – were part of the 2022 cohort. By celebrating the achievements of the most talented young people in the electronics industry, Electronics Weekly hopes to play a key role in inspiring and encouraging new entrants to the industry – something Imagination feel passionate about too.
