ARM on November 10 announced its new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) - Mali T604 - to bring 3D, gaming and HD video to smartphones and tablets without compromising battery life.
Samsung, has already licensed the Mali graphic processor technology from ARM and will be the first ARM Partner to can gain access to the Mali-T604.
The Mali-T604 is ARM's fourth generation GPU and features scalable, multicore, tri-pipe architecture. It will deliver a five-time performance improvement over current Mali graphics processors.
The graphics processor is designed to work with the company's latest Cortex-A15 CPU. Both processors have coherent hardware caches and interfaces to provide a performance advantage and reduction in power consumption.
When built inside a chip, the Mali-T604 will consume less than 850 milliwatts.
The Mali T604 will be compatible with Microsoft's DirectX 11 and OpenCL 1.1, which are competing programming frameworks for parallel task execution.
ARM makes CPUs that go into most of the world's smartphones. The company licenses its processor designs to chip manufacturers such as Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and other companies.
ARM announced the Cortex-A15 CPU in September. The A15, which is designed for devices ranging from smartphones to servers, could scale up in performance with up to 16 cores, with each CPU running at 2.5GHz.
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