Mobile, Graphics, and Gaming blog

Everyone is excited by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and no wonder! Google's "most ambitious release to date" rolls out many new features that look very promising indeed: zero-click NFC…

As graphics processor hardware now supports a number of different floating point data formats, it is important to understand how to select an appropriate format for your calculations, and why the choice…

Our latest world-class embedded graphics processor, the ARM® Mali™-T604 GPU, has excellent memory bandwidth, pixel fill rates to make the mind boggle, and gigaflops of programmable shading power…

Taking an in-depth look at all methods used throughout the industry to compare GPU performance in the handset space as well as their accuracy (or lack thereof) is not an easy task. Uniquely this year,…

The ARM Mali-400 MP was the world's first embedded multicore graphics processor (GPU) when it was launched, back in 2008, and Mali-T604 continues that trend. Since then, there have been a number of…

In the first blog of this series, I claimed that as a GPU performance metric, triangles per second (aka TPS or triangle rate) is a chocolate teapot — i.e. utterly and completely useless — and talked about…

For the Second blog on this subject see Triangles Per Second 2: A Chocolate Teapot of a Graphics Benchmark.The practice of characterizing GPU performance in terms of triangle rate (triangles per second…

I'm just back from SIGGRAPH 2012, the world's biggest computer graphics conference, and (as every year) still breathing hard from the excitement of seeing the latest in graphics research. This year…

At SIGGRAPH today, the Khronos™ Group announced that the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) technology developed by ARM and AMD has been adopted as an official extension to both the OpenGL…

The internal details of ARM's Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) technology were launched this week at the High Performance Graphics conference in Paris, France. Tom Olson presented his…

It's been a busy few months here at ARM in the run up to the launch of the ARM® Mali™-T604 Graphics Processor (GPU) at ARM Techcon. In the post-launch lull (i.e. returning to a slightly…

Today we announced the ARM® Mali™-T604 GPU, the first implementation of ARM’s new Midgard architecture. The increase in screen resolutions and the demand for better-looking and more intuitive…

The number of Android based devices continues to explode in the smartphone market. As more Android smartphones are introduced into the market the ability to differentiate continues to be a challenge for…

As this is my first time visiting Computex I was anxious to see how the emerging trends from CES earlier this year have been adapted and regionalized for the local market.  At CES we saw a new era of connected…

Recently we released a major update to the Linux drivers for the Mali-200 and Mali-400 MP GPUs. Like many software projects we time-box our driver development, with two major releases each year. This…

The ARM® Mali™-V500 offers advanced video technology combined with power-efficiency and one of the smallest chip sizes in the market to creators of mass-market mobile devices. Designed to scale from 1080p60…

The ARM® Mali™-T628 GPU offers scalability from one to eight cores – providing up to twice the graphics and GPU Compute performance compared to the Mali-T624 GPU. The Mali-T628 shares key API support…

Designed for visual computing and using innovative tri-pipe architecture, the ARM® Mali™-T624 GPU delivers significant performance improvements over current Mali graphics processors. The second generation…

This fourth-generation of Mali embedded graphics IP, designed to meet the needs of General Purpose computing on GPU (GPGPU), extends API support to include full profile as well as embedded Khronos™ OpenCL…

Mali™-450 MP graphics processor (GPU) doubles the OpenGL® ES 2.0 performance of the successful family of graphics products. The Mali-450 MP GPU expands the range of performance points by supporting scalability…

The world's first OpenGL® ES 2.0 conformant multi-core GPU provides 2D and 3D acceleration with performance scalable up to 1080p resolutions, while maintaining ARM® leadership on power and bandwidth…