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This is a demo created internally at ARM by Anthony Barbier.Mali OpenCL Flag DemoThe demo shows the performance improvements you can achieve when using OpenCL™ on a Mali powered device.The application…

If you have some previous experience with GPU compute, or if you have watched the GPU Compute for Mobile Devices at ARM Techcon Developer Summit presentation, and you have a Compute application that you…

timhar01 and I have just finished presenting a workshop about GPU Compute on mobile devices at the ARM Techcon Developer Summit in Santa Clara, California.The workshop was 3 hours long and was a rapid…

The ARM® Mali™-T720 GPU is the first offering in the Mid-Range GPU series which has its origins in the Midgard Architecture. It is an extremely area-efficient GPU designed specifically to bring…

Better performance or longer battery life? Or both?Many mobile phone users have experienced the disappointment of having their favourite device run out of juice when they are far away from a power socket…

This whitepaper describes how to implement a simple particle system to simulate smoke. Use of the code snippets present within this whitepaper are subject to the Mali OpenGL ES Linux SDK Tutorial EULA…

ARM’s Multimedia IP portfolio is designed to work together to reduce overall system power while delivering the performance that is central to the mobile device experience.What is the Multimedia Experience…

I often receive questions such as “How can I render shadows with OpenGL® ES 2.0 without an available depth texture extension?”; “How can I render a simple text with OpenGL ES 2.0?”; or “Simple text rendering…

In 2011 I attended the ARM Global Engineering Conference, where I saw a presentation about a new algorithm used in texture compression. I expected it to be about colour space conversions and perceptual…

At the Develop 2012 conference in Brighton I gave a talk about how we achieved some of the effects in our brand new (at the time) demo Timbuktu. As I repeated this presentation at a number of developer…

This document describes an approach for rendering shadows in realtime for mobile devices using OpenGL® ES 2.0 which does not support depth texture unless the OES_depth_texture extension is available.

In the fast-paced technology world we are used to hearing about improvements from one product generation to the next. In the past, we have looked in great detail at the various different metrics used to…

Chinese version 中文版：基准测试移动 GPU 中的浮点精度 - 第 3 部分This blog was originally published on 29th August 2013 on blogs.arm.comWelcome to Part III of my blog series on GPU floating-point quality! This series was…

During the last days of August 2013 I was in the wonderful city of Vancouver, Canada, to attend Unite 2013, one of the biggest events dedicated to Unity, the market-leading platform for creating high-quality…

It’s been a terrific year for the Mali™ Developer Resources team this year, with the Mali Graphics Debugger being released along with support for the ARM® Mali-T604 in ARM DS-5™ Streamline…

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When I was asked how OpenGL® ES 3.0 would improve my buddy's ARM® Mali™-T604 powered Nexus 10 I sighed, looking in exasperation at my unknowing friend. How could he, a self-proclaimed…

ARM's new video processor was publicly launched at Computex recently and we introduced a bunch of new technology in that device. Here I'd like to discuss just one of these new features:  …

H.265, more popularly known as HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), is the newest addition to the long list of video codecs that have evolved in the last two decades. HEVC promises improved video quality…

Last year I had an opportunity to cover the award-winning products based on ARM MaliTM-T604 including Google's Chromebook and Nexus 10. Since then, those devices have reached millions of consumers…

We recently added support for this extension to the OpenGL ES drivers for the Midgard architecture GPUs. In this post I will write about how this extension can be used to improve error reporting and make…