Mali (processor)

Mali
ARM Cortex A57 A53 big.LITTLE SoC with a Mali-T624 GPU
Release date2005
Architecture
  • Utgard
  • Midgard
  • Bifrost
  • Valhall
ModelsSee Variants
Cores1-32 cores
Fabrication process4-40 nm
API support
OpenCL1.1-3.0
Vulkan1.0-1.3

The Mali and Immortalis series of graphics processing units (GPUs) and multimedia processors are semiconductor intellectual property cores produced by Arm Holdings for licensing in various ASIC designs by Arm partners.

Mali GPUs were developed by Falanx Microsystems A/S, which was a spin-off of a research project from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[1] Arm Holdings acquired Falanx Microsystems A/S on June 23, 2006 and renamed the company to Arm Norway.[2]

It was originally named Malaik, but the team shortened the name to Mali, Serbo-Croatian for "small", which was thought to be fitting for a mobile GPU.[3]

On June 28, 2022, Arm announced their Immortalis series of GPUs with hardware-based Ray Tracing support.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "News". Arm.
  3. ^ Freddi Jeffries (2016-06-17). "Happy 10th Birthday Mali!". community.arm.com. Arm Limited. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  4. ^ "Gaming Performance Unleashed with Arm's new GPUs - Announcements - Arm Community blogs - Arm Community". community.arm.com. 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-09-16.