Graphics, Gaming, and VR blog

PerfDoc is a Vulkan layer which aims to validate applications against the Mali Application Developer Best Practices document, which is hosted on the Arm Developer website. Just like the LunarG validation…

This blog presents a detailed description of the steps to achieve mobile inside-out VR tracking with Unity and Google ARCore/Tango SDKs running on Samsung GearVR or Google Daydream.

Though it isn’t "straight off the shelf" brand new anymore, we got our hands on one of the most impressive smartphones of 2017, the Samsung Note 8.

Anyone with an interest in gaming or eSports will know of the UK's biggest games event, EGX, which took place in Birmingham City, UK.

For those of us who arguably take our tech a little too seriously, the first time a brand new product appears in real-life silicon is pretty exciting.

Mali is the number 1 shipping GPU in the world. More than 1 Billion Mali GPUs were shipped by our partners in 2016. A BILLION.

By optimizing games and applications for Mali-based SoCs, developers are able to tap into massive segments of the mobile market for everything from casual gaming to high fidelity mobile titles and VR amongst…

We’ve talked about how the new Mali-G72 GPU is providing better than ever performance for on-device Machine Learning, but we haven’t talked much about why it’s so good so we’re going to look at that now…

In this article, we will try to explore an anti-aliasing method that works well with deferred shading called temporal anti-aliasing.

Xiaomi recently launched the Mi 5c smartphone based on their Surge S1 SoC, incorporating more elements of Arm IP than any previous device.

ARM will be attending the High Performance Graphics 2017 event and will be holding a session on compression of Deep Neural Networks with ASTC. In this blog we discuss this in more detail.

While simple games like Snake inspire some serious nostalgia, and even the most basic puzzle game can kill a worrying number of hours if you’re not careful, it’s becoming more apparent that these high…

The first release candidate of Linux 4.13 is now released, along with the new Mali Midgard kernel drivers, which are now at the version r19p0! The first release candidate of Linux 4.13 is now released…

It’s not news that smartphones have become the hub of our daily lives: there are currently around 3.9 billion subscriptions worldwide, with growth in less mature markets predicted to push that number to…

The main steps to consider GPU processing budget when planning a game are discussed. Formulas are provided and available tools to obtain shader’s cycle consumption are described.

You may have already forgotten that the mobile device we hold in our hands today originated as a “cellular phone”, then became a “feature phone” and now a “smart phone”.

The first day of Computex Taipei 2017 opened up in expectation of 130,000 visitors attending to learn about the latest developments of the technology industry. With the Innovex expo alone featuring 272…

With each generation of mobile GPUs the available performance budget sees a significant increase. That performance increase opens up the door to new techniques never tried in mobile before.

Monday morning in Taipei and the public holiday for the Dragon Boat Festival doesn’t slow the momentum of the technology industry.

You might have noticed that around this time of year we start to talk about our latest high end GPU. Well, 2017 is no different and we in the Arm Mali team are delighted to welcome Mali-G72 to the High…

I recently attended the 11th Google I/O, a conference where 7000 developers gather near Google’s headquarters to learn about, and celebrate, everything new that Google announces across its increasing…