The
English-based chip design company ARM has announced its new silicon,
and as well as churning the pixels, its new graphics chips will play
nicely with your battery, too.
VentureBeat reports that
the company's new Mali chips—and there are a lot of them, spanning low-
to high-end applications—offer both higher performance and higher
energy efficiency. The top-end Mali-T860, for instance, supports 4K
graphics and beyond while "being 45 percent more energy efficient across
a wide range of content" compared to ARM's current offerings.
Perhaps
best of all, though, the new chips have been designed with something
even more important in mind: time-to-market. ARM claims these slabs of
silicon will make it from drawing board to device far faster than
before.
If
you wonder why you should care, it's because ARM actually designs chips
and then licenses the designs to other manufacturers. Currently, its
Mali GPU designs are used by 60 partners—with more than 400 million Mali
GPUs shipping in 2013 alone. In other words, they're everwhere.
So, its' pretty great to hear that they're getting faster, more efficient—and in your phone more rapidly than ever before.
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