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Arm Promises New Mobile Processors Are Built for Heavy AR/VR Gaming, 'Laptop-Class Performance'

An illustration of the Arm Cortex-A76 CPU. Image credit: Arm

Arm is proving that its chipset lineups are on the march along with the continuously advancing mobile technology and innovations.

On Thursday, Arm announced three of its newest mobile processors, which are promised to cater to the most advanced tech demands in overall smartphone performance, gaming and digital content viewing. The newest offerings are supposed to live up to the technological demands of augmented reality and virtual reality gaming, as well as other heavy mobile features.

One of the newly announced processors is the Cortex-A76 billed as a CPU that will bring “laptop-class performance” while also delivering the same efficiency of a smartphone. In a news release, Arm president Rene Haas promised a 35 percent increase in overall performance compared to its predecessor, the Cortex-A75.

In the past couple of years, gaming has been made more accessible through the release of portable consoles and gear that can be used on-the-go. Various AAA titles are being ported to mobile devices without significant gameplay and stability compromises as compared to its console and PC versions. Chip makers like Arm have also seen this trend, especially when there is a rise in the development of mobile AR and VR gaming. Added to that is the fact that the gaming market is an ever-growing industry profit-wise.

As a response to this, Arm also revealed the Mali-G76 GPU this week, promising that it will deliver “30 percent more efficiency and performance density.” Consumers are definitely the winners of continuously advancing tech products. But Arm views the release of Mali-G76 GPU as also a chance for developers to come up with more AR and VR gaming apps.

There is no doubt that multimedia content in 8K resolution is going to be next big thing for movie and TV series lovers, and Mali-V76 VPU is Arm’s response to that. “The Mali-V76 supports 8K decode up to 60fps or four 4K streams at 60fps, giving consumers the opportunity to stream four movies, record video while video conferencing, or watch four games in 4K,” Haas wrote.

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