Arm's biggest GPU redesign in seven generations shipped first in China
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Arm's biggest GPU redesign in seven generations shipped first in China
The first phone shipping Arm's Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor is the Xiaomi 18 Fold, and it is on sale in mainland China. The GPU sits inside Xiaomi's own Xring O3 chip, which launched on 24 August 2026.
Key Takeaways
- The Xiaomi 18 Fold is the first shipping device with Arm's Mali G2-Ultra NX, inside Xiaomi's Xring O3 chip
- A new matrix accelerator handles up to 1,024 INT8 operations per clock and powers Arm's Neural Super Sampling
- It supports INT8 and INT16 only, with no BF16 or FP8, so it is built for graphics rather than general on-device AI
- Arm's 14 percent gaming uplift is measured at roughly 11 percent higher clocks, so most of the architectural gain lands in ray tracing
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