Arm GPU Gets More AI Muscle

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SAN JOSE, Calif. , Mar. 06, 2018 – 

ARM announced four new cores for mainstream smartphones and digital TVs, two Mali GPUs and associated video and display cores for them. The news shows that Arm is, at least for now, taking a three-tier approach to machine learning and that China mobile OEMs are becoming increasingly influential.

Arm's new Mali G52 GPU core is aimed at mid-tier smartphones and digital TVs using combinations of Cortex-A72 and -A55 CPU cores. The GPU boosts machine-learning performance up to 3.6x for ImageNet classifiers compared to its existing G51 core.

The G52 packs eight execution engines compared to four on the G51, with four lanes in each engine and each capable of up to four 8-bit integer multiply-accumulate operations per cycle. Up to four G52s can be used in an SoC, each executing up to 288 MACs/cycle.

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