Chukong Technologies and ARM raise the bar for mobile graphics performance

International mobile entertainment platform company Chukong Technologies, which powers seven out of the ten top grossing games in China, and ARM announced a partnership to optimize games built in Cocos2d-x for ARM®-based devices. Cocos2d-x is an open-source, cross-platform game engine developed and maintained by Chukong Technologies, which has been downloaded more than 1.1 million times by developers such as Wooga, Zynga, Gamevil and more.

For more information, read the full PR here.

Or if you want to learn more about Cocos2d-x, its co-founder gave an interview with ARM at GDC 2014:

ARM expects ~1bn entry level smartphones in 2018, $20 smartphones coming this year

The ARM chips behind the wearable revolution

Hexus describes how the combination of an ARM Cortex® CPU and an ARM Mali GPU within a smartwatch is a potent combination which offers both efficiency and the great user interface that consumers are becoming used to.

For more information, read the full article here.

Huawei Ascend P7 Hands-on Review

This week saw many reviewers get their hand on the latest release from Huawei, the Ascend P7 with its HiSilicon KIRIN 910T processor featuring a Mali-450 GPU.

For more information, here are some reviews:

AnandTech | Huawei Launches Ascend P7 Based on Custom HiSilicon SoC

Huawei Ascend P7 hands-on review | ITProPortal.com

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/05/huawei-ascend-p7-hands-on-a-smartphone-for-generation-selfie/

Other Mali-based devices released this week include...

The Oppo Joy smartphone, its 3G-enabled budget offering, in the Indian market at Rs. 8,990.

Also launched in India this week was the Gionee P2D Android smartphone.