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…
ARM Unveils Details of ASTC Texture Compression at HPG Conference - Part 1
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…
ARM's ASTC Adopted by Khronos Group
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…
How low can you go? Building low-power, low-bandwidth ARM Mali GPUs
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…
Of Philosophy and When is a Pixel Not a Pixel?
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…
ARM Mali-T604: New GPU & Architecture For Highest Performance & Flexibility
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…
VOME: OpenMAX Compliant Media Framework for Android
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…
Making the Mali GPU Device Driver open source
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…