ARM has announced that they have entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Samsung covering current Mali graphics processing units (GPUs) as well as GPUs developed in the future. Mark Dickinson, general manager with ARM, says the agreement “will enable Samsung to deliver rich and exciting user experiences to consumers on any device” while noting “hundreds of millions of consumers have benefitted from the longstanding collaboration between Samsung and ARM.”

The current stable of ARM Mali GPUs include the Mali-T820/830/860 units and the recently announced Mali-T880. The agreement is not limited to these higher-end, more recent GPUs though as Samsung will continue to use mid-tier processing units on their chips throughout their device portfolio. ARMs entire line of Mali GPUs is the most popular in the world with over 550 million units shipped just in 2014.

Samsung notes that “visual quality is a critical part of high-end mobile devices. The highly scalable and energy-efficient ARM Mali family gives us the flexibility we need to address a broad range of devices,” according to Samsung senior vice president Jae Cheol Son.

source: ARM press release