Every year, Arm announces new CPU and GPU architectures for mobile devices, and those CPUs make their way into MediaTek's and Samsung's flagship chips. Arm has now announced its newest CPU and GPU, and the CPU cores will likely make their way into Exynos chips in the future.The first chip to use this architecture could be the Exynos 2600.Arm's new CPU for mobile chips brings massive AI performance upgradeArm has announced the Lumex platform, which features C1 series CPUs and the Mali-G1 Ultra GPU. The C1 series features four different types of cores: C1-Ultra, C1-Premium, C1-Pro, and C1-Nano. Similar to last year's Cortex-X925 CPU core, all of the company's new CPU cores are designed with the 3nm process nodes in mind. The C1-Ultra and the C1-Premium are prime CPU cores, while the C1-Pro is a high-end core that does the bulk of the job. The C1-Nano is the efficiency core.The C1-Ultra is the highest-end core and will likely be used in the flagship smartphone chips like the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 and the Exynos 2600. These cores offer 25% faster performance compared to last year's Cortex-X925 cores. The C1-Premium offers C1-Ultra-like performance but in a 35% smaller area. These cores will likely be used in non-flagship high-end processors.The C1-Pro is an improvement over the Cortex-A75 in terms of performance and efficiency. It will be used in entry-level and mid-range chips and offers 16% more sustained performance. A high-end smartphone chip using the C1 cluster will likely feature two C1-Ultra or C1-Premium cores paired with six or eight C1-Pro cores.The C1-Nano are efficiency cores and will be used in low-powered devices like smartwatches and smart rings. They offer 26% more power efficiency compared to the previous generation. Arm's C1 CPU cluster doesn't have a dedicated NPU. Instead, it features AI accelerators integrated into the CPU cores that use Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2) based on the Arm v9.3 instruction set. It offers 5x faster AI performance and will be used in everyday tasks like camera processing, audio generation, and computer vision. Moreover, onboard AI will offer 3x better power efficiency than the previous implementation.Arm's new GPU, the Mali-G1 Ultra, promises 20% better graphics performance than last year's Immortalis-G925 GPU. It will also consume less power at the same workload, as the GPU is placed on its own power island, so there is almost no power leakage when it is sitting idle. Arm claims that its new flagship GPU offers 40% more frame rates in ray-tracing and offers native upscaling to improve frame rates.The company has said that Apple, Samsung, and MediaTek are integrating AI acceleration into their new mobile chips. High-end smartphones from Honor, Vivo, and Samsung that will be launched in the next few months will likely use Arm's new CPU and GPU technologies.The Exynos 2600, which is a 2nm chip fabricated by Samsung Foundry, will likely use these new CPU cores, paired with AMD's RDNA architecture-based Xclipse 950 GPU. The chip could score around 3,400 points in Geekbench 6's single-core test and around 11,200 points in the multi-core test. That is on par with Apple's A19 and A19 Pro chips used in the iPhone 17 series.Nak Hee Seong, Vice President and Head of SOC IP Development Team at Samsung Electronics, said, “At Samsung, we’re excited to continue our collaboration with Arm by leveraging Arm’s compute subsystem platform to develop the next generation of flagship mobile products. This partnership enables us to push the boundaries of on-device AI, delivering smarter, faster, and more efficient experiences for our users.“The post Samsung hints at bringing 5x faster AI with Exynos 2600 chip appeared first on SamMobile.