ARM Announces New Mali-T604 Embedded GPU
ARM has announced the successor to its Mali-400, the Mali-T604.
Over the last couple of years we've been seeing a lot more of ARM thanks to a huge increase in high-powered mobile devices. Already playing a massive role when it comes to powering countless phones, tablets and MIDs, the company yesterday announced its new embedded GPU architecture, the Mali-T604.
Supporting OpenCL 1.1, Direct X and DirectX 11, the Mali-T604 is also designed to meet the increasing demand for GPGPU power and is the first GPU in the Midgard architecture family. It uses a tri-pipe design to optimize performance and flexibility, and ARM claims the Mali-T604 is capable of delivering up to five times the performance of the previous generation Mali-400 GPU.
Samsung, already a licensee of the Mali graphic processor technology, will be the first ARM Partner to gain access to the Mali-T604, but the technology is now available for partners to license.
For more on the Mali-T604, check out ARM's Jem Davies Mali-T604 introduction below.

Have you ever used Intel graphics solutions? especially say, the 8xx or 9xx series (pre core i3/5/7).
Don't hold your breath.
More interesting to me is no mention of OpenGL support, since Windows is the only thing that runs on DX11, and Android is the big boy on the block for tablets.
But... can it play Crysis?
And more importantly, better than other integrated graphics?
Let's see some benchmarks.
Yes, I have a netbook with a GMA950 - not so much fun.
And I agree with you that openGL will be much more important than directX on this part. Actually, openCL is interesting also - glad to see the standard gaining traction.
I thought the same thing! It will become self aware sooner or later.
ARM's website states " API Support:
-OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0
-OpenVG 1.1
-OpenCL 1.1, 1.2
-DirectX
Full support for next-generation and legacy
2D/3D graphics applications"
http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-hardware/mali-t604.php
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not really...intel has other processors and it does not really care about mobile computing very much
ARM is purely a design house that licenses their to manufacturers. They're totally fabless, unlike Intel and IBM. As for Nvidia, they already have an ARM-based chip in Tegra/Tegra II. Tegra and designs by PowerVR are what ARM is up against here with this graphics chip, since those are what you usually get in the way of graphics with ARM-based SoCs.
AMD so far has no real ARM-coupled graphics solution, but they aren't aiming for anything in the space that ARM occupies (low performance but extremely low power, like smartphones, PMPs and tablets). They're just now putting out solutions for netbook-like devices, after years of letting Geode languish. Their real market is servers, and after that desktops/laptops. Intel is the one that's working its way down into ARM's turf, while ARM is now working up to meet Intel at the Atom level.