The global smartphone market has witnessed extraordinary growth in recent years with shipments rising by 23% in 2014 to exceed the 1.2bn unit threshold. Market research firm CCS Insight forecasts smartphone shipments of 1.89bn units by 2018. This growth predominantly comes from the lower spectrum of the market with consumers upgrading from feature phones to the mainstream smartphones. ARM® Cortex® CPUs are in the heart of over 95% of the mobile and smartphones in the world ARM® Mali™ is the #1 licensable GPU with a mature and growing ecosystem of partners.
ARM and its partners have been at the forefront of innovation, delivering energy-efficient and affordable devices to millions of consumers who would like to be able to enjoy features of modern technology like mobile email, web browsing, video streaming and mobile gaming without paying a high price.
The ARM® Mali™-450 MP GPU has been enjoying popularity since its launch and is found in millions of entry to mid-range level smartphones, tablets and set-up-box. The Mali-450 MP has been designed for the volume market and optimized with a focus on energy and bandwidth savings. It is a perfect energy-efficient, cost and area optimized solution for a market that requires OpenGL ES 2.0 implementation.
Recently we announced a 64-bit driver for Mali-450MP enabling developers to take full advantage of the latest technology available on the market.