ARM fills in GPU line with Mali-450

Peter Clarke, EETimes
6/12/2012 5:46 AM EDT

LONDON – Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has provided some details of the Mali-450, a graphics processor based on ARM's Utgard architecture.

T450 offers up to twice the performance of the previously released Mali-400 and can be scaled up to eight cores, while the Mali-400 scales up to four cores, ARM executives said.

The Mali-450, which is offered as synthesizable RTL, is intended for use in entry-level and mid-range smartphones. The core, codenamed Tyr, has a common software platform with Mali-400 and provides market-leading OpenGL ES2.0 performance.

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