Mali G31
Today Arm announces a new Mali Multimedia Suite of products consisting of GPU, display processor and video processor IPs targeting the mainstream and low-end. The announcement comes at a time where the industry’s biggest growth comes from China where “premium” experience devices hold >30% of global smartphone market share. Indeed we’ve seen the same narrative reproduced by MediaTek as it was a core factor in the strategy shift and re-focus on the P-series. The coverage starts with the announcement of the Mali-G52 mid-range GPU IP which follows the G51 announced in October 2016. The G51 was a rather odd GPU design in the sense that we haven’t seen any consumer SoCs adopt it, as vendors seemingly have preferred to use low core count G71 and...