13. The method as recited in claim 12 wherein the processing pipeline is a user interface unit configured to fetch a static image.
12. The method as recited in claim 11 further comprising: detecting, in the image processing pipeline, that fetching of the image data for at least one of the rows of tiles is complete; discarding, from the image processing pipeline, translations corresponding to the at least one row of tiles; and prefetching, in the image processing pipeline, an additional plurality of translations corresponding to an additional at least one row of tiles responsive to discarding the translations.