First Xiaomi, then the world: why Arm might give phone gaming a huge graphics boost

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China is getting first crack at a British technology that might change how mobile games are made and played. Today, the Xiaomi 18 Fold launches in mainland China with an Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor inside its custom Xring O3 chip. What’s so special about that? After five years of development, Arm now has an AI gaming graphics accelerator inside its GPU.

By following Nvidia’s playbook, Arm-powered phones are about to have PC-like technologies to make games run faster, at higher resolution, with advanced lighting techniques, all without using more power than they do today. The jagged edges you see in the mobile versions of popular games might begin to go away.

And these advancements won’t just be locked to Chinese phones. The chips, devices, and games are already inbound.

“You will be able to buy it; you will be able to get it in phones next year,...

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