Just a day ago we've lifted the veil off the ARM® Mali™-T658, the second Mali GPU based on the Midgard architecture that we launched a year ago. It's been brewing in our labs next to the Mali-T604 and already has key leading licensees, but until now hasn't enjoyed the public presence of its sibling. Now they are both ready to power the leading end-user devices of 2012! Yes you hear right - expect to see them both in stores next year.
So how does the Mali-T658 complement the Mali-T604? By showing off some of the versatility of the Midgard architecture it brings in a compute punch of up to 350 GFLOPS and over 5GPixel/s real fill rate to external memory to power high-end mobile devices with Visual Computing and Augmented Reality, the 4k DTV revolution, and Exascale High Performance Compute. It's another fantastic component in the joined-up computing story from ARM.
You can still find every part of the unrivalled feature set of the Mali-T604 in the Mali-T658, including the true multicore capability allowing partners to choose the number of cores to implement making one product release from ARM equal a whole roadmap of products from others.
I must say I'm proud that our team has been able to develop and deliver these masterpieces; their rigorous focus on our vision and quality and execution has put Mali in an enviable position ahead in time, quality, reputation and performance. You make my dreams come true!
If you can't make it to one of our upcoming Technical Symposia events, join us online to find out more about our latest and greatest Mali GPU. We'll be holding a webinar entitled "Harnessing the power and flexibility of the Mali Midgard architecture"& on 15 November, at 10am PST and you can register here.
This is fantastic news and quite an impressive part. Can you confirm that the GFLOPS rating is correct at 350? I was under the impression that it would be closer to 250.