Arm's new CPU cores and GPUs for Android chips promise 'desktop-class' games, more AI power

Arm has announced its new C2 CPUs for future Android chips as well as upgrades to its Mali GPUs that will take everything up a notch.

Arm CPU designs are the backbone of many Android smartphone chips, including the likes of MediaTek flagships and Google’s Tensor as well. This week, Arm has announced its C2-Ultra and C2-Pro CPU cores, delivering a 15% boost to single-thread performance and 12% faster app launches, as well as local AI that’s built into the CPU itself instead of offloading to a dedicated NPU or TPU.

Arm claims:

Up to 1.7x performance improvement across the latest AI models

Up to 15 percent higher single-thread performance