Another year has almost passed for the Mali team and, crikey, has it been a busy one. With the mobile market booming - particularly in the mainstream segment - demand for ARM® Mali™ GPUs has never been stronger and continues to mount. Our engineers are taking it in their stride, releasing new products across the board to drive the spread of stunning media experiences across the world. Our product roadmap is at its most flexible ever, offering a wide range of GPU, video and display solutions that scale from a single core Mali-400 for smartwatches to the recently announced Mali-T860 to power the next generation of premium smartphones. Meanwhile, in the current generation of premium smartphones, the Mali-T600 Series is shipping in volume and delivering the stunning graphics capabilities of the performance efficient Mali GPU roadmap to consumers who demand only the best media experiences.
If you’re looking this Holiday Season for a mobile device that delivers high quality graphics experiences without draining the battery, why not check out some of the following – all of which are new to the market this year and sport an ARM Mali GPU. You will also have the chance to win some of these fantastic devices as part of the Epic Giveaway, continue reading to find out more.
1. Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Featuring an Exynos 7 Octa processor with a Mali-T760 MP6 GPU, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 was released in September 2014 and will be part of the Epic Giveaway in January. With its pixel dense display, vibrant colours and powerful 16MP back facing camera the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is a feature-rich phone that also provides astonishing performance for compute intensive applications such as high resolution, high end games.
2. Huawei Honor 6
The Honor 6’s HiSilicon Kirin 920 processor features four ARM® Cortex®-A15 cores and four Cortex-A7 cores in big.LITTLE configuration alongside a Mali-T628 MP4 GPU to offer a good HD display and high performance within an affordable price bracket.
3. HTC Desire 820s
With the 64-bit, Mali-T760 GPU-based Mediatek MT6752 SoC at its heart the HTC Desire 820s was announced on Sina Weibo, the Chinese social network site, in November.
4. Pipo Pad-P1
Rockchip were the first to market with a Mali-T760 GPU-based SoC, our most advanced GPU shipping to date, releasing the first devices half a year after the cores were first announced.
Their fast time to market is setting the pace for the industry and the implication of the RK3288 is that, in the future, the latest graphics processing will be arriving to the hands of consumers quicker than ever before.
5. Omate TrueSmart
With a single core Mali-400 GPU at the heart of the Mediatek MT6572, this little smartwatch delivers a smooth UI along with the ability to make calls, navigate and use Android apps independently of your smartphone.
6. Samsung Galaxy S5
A final device of mention is the Samsung Galaxy S5 which has just entered ARM’s 2014 Epic Giveaway! Released at the start of the year in Barcelona, it sports a Samsung Exynos 5 Octa chipset with octa-core big.LITTLE technology, splitting CPU work across four Cortex-A7 and four Cortex-A15 processors, with an implementation of the Mali-T628 GPU IP delivering the multimedia experience. Enter the Epic Giveaway competition for your chance to get your hands on a Samsung Galaxy S5 this Holiday Season.
The 2014 Epic Giveaway gets underway today. In partnership with HEXUS, ARM is giving you the chance to win amazing new prizes this holiday season! Every day for the next few weeks, we'll be giving away a brand-new ARM-based device. We'll have an array of prizes from ARM and our partners, including Atmel, Nvidia and Samsung, plus many, many more! Each prize draw will be open for seven days, so visit the dedicated competition page to keep tabs on what's up for grabs and what's coming soon.
Click here to find out more and to enter the EPIC Giveaway for your chance to win.