Date: 16/07/2009

MediaTek and Samsung employ ARM's Mali in their chips and devices

Fables chip vendor MediaTek has licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore graphics-processing unit (GPU) for its system-on-chip (SoC) devices.

Mediatek being video chip specialist has selected Mali for its graphics performance and graphics rendering at low power. Mali-400 MP multicore GPU provides a level of scalability for a range of graphics solutions. ARM's normal processors IPs plus this new Mali GPU IP now address new application domains, mainly in the consumer electronics market.

"We have chosen to license ARM Mali technology for its scalability and performance credentials," said MediaTek. "It is vital that we are able to achieve flexibility in our product portfolio."

"MediaTek has a strong record of execution and success in the mobile and digital home market place and we are pleased to be working together to deliver the best graphics technology to meet their customers' needs," said Lance Howarth, general manager, ARM Media Processing Division. "The scalability of the Mali hardware architecture will enable its use in a vast range of MediaTek consumer SoC products."


Samsung Electronics also has licensed ARM Mali-SVG-t software for use in its mobile phones. ARM Mali-SVG-t technology provides a middleware layer compliant with the SVG-t 1.2 specification and is optimized for ARM processors and ARM Mali family of graphics processing units (GPUs). The technology will enable Samsung to deliver optimum performance and power consumption characteristics across a variety of ARM powered platforms.
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ARM says, the Mali GPU family scales from Mali-55, the world's smallest OpenGL ES graphics processor to Mali-400 MP, the highest-performance embedded multicore GPU IP on the market which supports complex applications at up to 1080p high-definition resolution.