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ARM Unveils Three Second-Generation Mali GPUs

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-on-the-scene dept.

Barence writes "ARM has taken the lid off three new Mali T600 graphics chips that form the second generation of its mobile Midgard architecture. Designed for use in smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, the three chips range from four to eight cores, improve performance by 'up to 50%' and offer greater efficiency. ARM expects devices to begin appearing with the chips this time next year."

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  1. Open source drivers? by Curupira · · Score: 5, Informative
    It seems that ARM will soon release open source drivers for those babies...
    Unfortunatelly, they will not be *fully* open source:

    For the ARM Mali T6xx Linux enablement, they are only using a DRM driver for driving the display controller while they have their own separate kernel driver for poking and handling the GPU itself. ARM though isn't being too open-source friendly in terms of a fully open stack or providing proper documentation.

    Good grief.