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They used to be somewhat popular in Mediatek SoCs, but not so much recently. I don't know why they're not getting as many design wins recently - maybe they're t
by johntb86 6y ago
They used to be somewhat popular in Mediatek SoCs, but not so much recently. I don't know why they're not getting as many design wins recently - maybe they're too expensive or too power hungry.
In the end you can't just get new customers on demand - you have to earn them.
- unix_fan 6y agoOr their IP simply isn’t very competitive, with Apple doing most of the heavy lifting. After all, the designs Apple used were custom.
- wmf 6y agoIt looks like Mali is now the "default" GPU in ARM SoCs; it's probably bundled with the CPU cores.
- hajile 6y agoARM gives a huge discount if you buy their CPU and GPU together. Hard to compete with that on price, so cheap Chinese SoC use ARM. Qualcomm bought adreno from AMD (interestingly an anagram for radeon). Samsung struck a deal to buy from AMD. Intel moved from PowerVR to their own designs. And just like that we're out of major chip makers other than Apple or the occasional specialized SoC that probably doesn't sell in huge volume or rake in the cash. Making things worse, their really cool patents related to early geometry culling expire soon.
- monocasa 6y ago> ARM gives a huge discount if you buy their CPU and GPU together. Yeah, I've heard rumors that ARM+Mali is cheaper than just ARM for the licensing fees.