Arm has announced the hardware that will power Samsung's Galaxy S30, Galaxy Note 30, OnePlus 9, and any other 2021 Android flagship phone you can think of. Good news for performance fans, whether you have a limited or unlimited budget.

Arm is a company that partners with well-known chipmakers such as Qualcomm, HiSilicon, and even Apple to design CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, which its manufacturing partners then license and integrate into their actual products. For this reason, Arm's announcements are always a major talking point for smartphone enthusiasts.

The main trio of new IP consists of the Cortex-A78, Mali-G78, and Ethos-N78 chips. Each of these CPU, GPU, and NPU designs offers a highly desirable upgrade combination of increased performance at the same or lower power consumption.

The Cortex-A78's greatest achievement is a 20% improvement in sustained performance while being 15% smaller than last year's A-77 design, which was used in Qualcomm's top-of-the-line Snapdragon 865 chip, among others. In graphics, the Mali-G78 improves total performance by 25%, while the Ethos-N78 improves machine learning efficiency by 20%. [But the Arm knows what winds are blowing in the smartphone world: while budget and mid-range devices like the iPhone SE 2020 are becoming more common, premium flagships like the almighty Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra are gaining power and functionality at an ever increasing in power and functionality at an unprecedented rate.

To that end, Arm also debuted its Cortex-X custom program and Mali-G68 GPU, which aims to improve peak performance by up to 30% over last year's chip by modifying the CPU architecture to better suit its needs, Arm and a currently unnamed partner company, in a joint development effort aimed at improving peak performance by up to 30% over last year's chip by modifying the CPU architecture to better suit its needs.

As an example, this could mean lower power efficiency than Arm would normally allow with the Cortex-A78, in exchange for best-in-class performance in flagships and phones with large displays. However, the Cortex-X takes up more space, but since these are customized chips, this is something manufacturers can consider.Arm is silent on who they are working with on this project, but this more customized approach to chip design News on who will be taking full advantage of this more customized approach to chip design will be announced in the near future.

Meanwhile, the Mali G68 is a scaled-down version of the G78, providing similar functionality for phones and devices with less space or component budgets. Considering that many top smartphones are currently priced over $1,000, it is encouraging to hear that you don't always have to buy the latest iPhone or Samsung device to get the best experience.

Arm is working with and enhancing these designs to work with and enhance some of the hottest features in smartphones today, such as superzoom, foldable fold, AR, and VR, as well as more basic requirements like 5G connectivity, phone data security, and power management. They are being targeted. These advancements will be seen in the biggest Android phones to be released early next year.

However, Apple fans will be able to see the ARM MacBook, long rumored to arrive in 2021, and Apple's new generation of A-series CPUs, which are almost certain to appear in the iPhone 12 later this year, using custom chipsets based on ARM's designs will be in on the action.