IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES AND TEXAS INSTRUMENTS EXTEND GRAPHICS COOPERATION

KINGS LANGLEY, UK, Oct. 7, 2006 -- Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") - a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI"), a world-leading semiconductor company, has licensed one of Imagination's PowerVR® graphics core family members under a multiple-use license arrangement.

TI will use this technology from Imagination in its next generation application processor family, OMAP™ 3 architecture.

Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination receives license fees and royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination's IP shipped by partners.

About Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies Group plc - a leader in SoC IP - develops, licenses and supplies market-leading graphics, video and display cores, real-time multi-threaded DSP/RISC processors and communication and broadcast technologies for the mobile, consumer, automotive and PC markets. It supplies licensable IP (Intellectual Property) supported by advanced development tools to leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies worldwide. Imagination Technologies Group plc has its corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE:IMG). See: www.imgtec.com.

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