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Re:Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, an... by roymurdock on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:59PM (#12314852)
Automotive In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) systems that feature embedded SoCs running Linux for the GUI on an MPU and embedded RTOSs on MCUs for some of the more real-time/routine functions. Energy efficiency is secondary to the unnecessary cost/performance profile of building in a GPU to render relatively simple dashboard graphics.

The automotive market is the fastest-growing (and one of the largest) vertical markets for embedded MCU/MPUs, and by extension, embedded software.

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Re:Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, an... by n00b101 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:08PM (#12314940)
It's not my area, but I have a hard time believing that any competitive, modern IVI would be missing GPU integration. Just looking briefly, both Qualcomm [1] and NVIDIA [2] automotive systems have on-board GPUs.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/products/automotive/infotainment [2] http://www.nvidia.ca/object/drive-cx.html

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Re:Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, an... by roymurdock on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:17PM (#12315020)
Check out Freescale and Renesas solutions. They are major automotive SoC players. The Renesas R-Car platform does integrate a dual-core Power-VR GPU:

https://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/IMX6S...

https://www.renesas.com/en-us/solutions/automotive/products/...

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Re:Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, an... by icefox on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:30PM (#12315140)
And the price difference between a device that didn't have gpu compared to those that don't will just shrink over time so any margin you might get yesterday will not be what you can get in the future.
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Re:Introducing the Qt Lite project – Qt for any platform, an... by nullcipher on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:49PM (#12315278)
Same here. It would be very poor long term investment to put a chip into a car without a GPU.

But, I think the Qt changes are for IoT and not for cars.

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