Posted on Thursday, June 30 2011 @ 22:38 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Inquirer
reports ARM claims its Mali core will match the power of Sony's PlayStation 3 or Microsoft's Xbox 360 within 18 months:
ARM told The INQUIRER that it is already planning what its chips will be capable of in 2016 and in particular the graphics capabilities of its Mali GPU. Planning five years ahead is not all that surprising, as those who have seen roadmaps from AMD or Intel will agree, however ARM said that it needs to plan even further ahead, as the cadence of its designs appearing on devices is a further 18 to 24 months.
The message from ARM is achingly similar to that of AMD saying that it needed to take advantage of the CPU and the GPU in order to create the next generation user interfaces, gaming and tasks such as computational photography. ARM said that in order to make this happen it needs to "put huge amounts of computational power in the hands of developers".
