The games industry is experiencing a shift in focus towards being ‘mobile-first’. Even game studios that have traditionally focused on developing only PC and console games are putting their resources into developing more mobile titles. This trend is supported…

We are excited to expand our Mali graphics portfolio with the new Arm Mali-G57 GPU, bringing a range of new features and immersive experiences to the mainstream market. Mali-G57 is the first mainstream GPU based on the new Valhall architecture, following…

Way back at the start of the year I asked you what you thought the hot topics of tech were going to be in 2017 and which would take the greatest forward leaps.  Whilst there was a lot of support for Virtual Reality (and not quite as much for Augmented…

Game development moves at an incredibly fast pace, and with looming deadlines and the ever-closer publishing date, the focus is – quite rightly – on shipping titles on time on existing platforms. With such a profound focus on ‘now’, the challenge for…

Introduction

Images, along with video and image sensors have been in the center of mobile Hardware and Software development and users’ interest since the first phone with a built-in camera was released in 2000. Today, mobile images play a key role in…

This is the first article of three that will focus on the implementation of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) using the mixed-radix method on Mobile ARM Mali GPU by means of OpenCL.

Moving Mobile Graphics is a recurring half-day course at SIGGRAPH providing a technical introduction to the state of the art in mobile graphics from practitioners at the forefront. It first ran at SIGGRAPH 2015, then 2016 and 2018 and we aim to return…

This is the second in a series of blogs about floating-point quality in GPUs. In part I, I claimed that a lot of programmers don't really understand floating-point numbers, and argued that if you're going to use it for anything remotely tricky, you'd…

Mobile gaming is now the largest and most valuable segment of the global gaming market. Porting your game to mobile is not straightforward however, as there is a range of constraints and considerations that are required for an optimal experience due to…

Next week kicks off with Game Developers Conference (GDC), and San Francisco will be bursting with energy and excitement. The gaming industry is full of creativity and it shows by the amazing events that the industry hosts every year.

GDC is a chance f…

Mobile continues to be a very dynamic industry, thriving with technical innovation, particularly around camera related technologies. In 2017 over 1.2 Trillion (that is 1,200,000,000,000) photos were taken with mobile devices. With over 1.5bn devices shipping…

In the last six years we have seen huge improvements in the performance of mobile system-on-a-chip designs, with gains spanning the CPU (x100), the GPU (x300), and the DDR memory system (20x). These improvements make it finally possible to start treating…