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This guide provides instructions to build and run a GNU/Linux distribution on the Samsung Chromebook devices as an alternative to the Chrome OS operating system. Some experience with Linux as a programmer…

Welcome to sunny Shenzhen for the third and final day of the China leg of ARM Tech Symposia 2016. There’s a very different feel to this city from the moment you leave the airport. Just a few short decades…

Following a fantastic first event in Shanghai it was off to the airport for a short hop to a much chillier Beijing for round two of 2016’s Tech Symposia. On Monday we talked about the keynotes and…

The first of this year’s ARM® Tech Symposia kicked off this morning on a rather damp day in Shanghai. With the rain coming down outside it was a perfect opportunity to check out our latest demos before…

It’s no secret that everything in China moves fast. At ‘China Speed’ in fact. From building a skyscraper in 19 days, to the fastest trains in the world, China is all about embracing change…

It’s not just high-end mobile devices which need to work like a dream, we expect a certain level of performance and a relatively advanced feature set even from a more modest, mainstream handset budget…

Reducing power consumption and optimizing CPU utilization in a multi-core architecture are key to satisfy the increasing demand of delivering sustained high-quality graphics meanwhile maintaining a lasting…

Tools such as ARM DS-5 Streamline provide developers access to the GPU hardware performance counters, the principle means to determine the behavior inside the black box beneath the API and identify any…

On the 29th September, as promised at Google I/O, Unity released the first developer preview for their upcoming Vulkan renderer. Developers have been eagerly awaiting the release since Android Nougat…

In previous blogs we’ve looked at the scalability of the Mali™ family of GPUs which allows partners’ implementations to be tailored to fit all levels of device across multiple price, performance and area…

I lost a few days wondering why some textures were completely distorted when loaded in OpenGL.The thing is, they were only distorted when the colours components were packed as GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_5_5_5_1…

In a previous blog we talked about running Mali Graphics Debugger on a non-rooted device. In this blog we will focus on how you can add support for Mali Graphics Debugger, on a non-rooted device, to your…

In the 27 years since its inception, Hot Chips has become one of the world’s leading high performance microporocessor event. Attracting more than 500 attendees from across the world, Hot Chips presents…

In the first Bitesize Bifrost blog we introduced you to our new GPU architecture, Bifrost, and looked specifically at the extensive optimization and power saving benefits provided by clause shaders.  This…

As you may have seen, Virtual Reality (VR) is getting increasingly popular. From its modern origins on desktop, it has quickly spread to other platforms, mobile being the most popular. Every time a new…

I introduce the block-level architecture of a stereotypical Bifrost shader core and explain what performance expectations application developers should have of the hardware when it comes to content optimization…

As a graphics blogger I’m always interested in the next big thing in tech and particularly, VR, so when I saw a news item about a guy cycling the length of the country from the comfort of his living room…

In the first of my Mali™ Power & Efficiency blogs we looked at the inbuilt flexibility and scalability of the Mali range of GPUs. It’s this that allows ARM® partners to target exactly the right…

Ok I did it. I downloaded Pokemon Go. Yes I was trying to resist, yes it was futile, yes it’s an awesome concept. Whilst a strong believer in Virtual Reality as a driving force in how we will handle much…

Some devices, applications or use cases require the absolute peak of performance capability in order to deliver on their requirements. Some devices, applications or use cases however, need to save every…