Arm hopes to bring high performance graphics applications such as 3D imaging and gaming to handheld devices like smartphones while keeping battery life intact with a new graphics processor design it announced on Wednesday.
Everyday multimedia applications like video playback and image recognition draw a lot of battery life, but the company's new Mali T604 graphics processor will accelerate those applications while drawing less power, said Ian Smythe, director of marketing at ARM. The Mali T604 will be able to handle 3D imaging and full high definition video.
Arm also makes CPUs that go into most of world's smartphones and the new graphics processor will work in conjunction with CPUs to improve performance. The graphics processor delivers a five times performance improvement over its predecessors, and when built inside a chip consumes less than 850 milliwatts.
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Radeon HD 5000 family of graphics products and by doing so, AMD became the first company to offer DirectX 11 compatibility when Windows 7 was launched.
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