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ARM’s GPU architects and engineers regularly push the envelope in mobile graphics technology, which is why the latest Mali GPU cores offer such a unique combination of best-in-class graphics performance, an aggressively forward-looking feature set, and unprecedented scalability. But the engineers also make more fundamental contributions to graphics technology. This week at SIGGRAPH Asia, we’re disclosing a new approach to texture compression. This technology enables deep reductions in GPU memory bandwidth and application memory footprint, which in turn allows improved performance and lower power. In this blog, I’ll talk about where the technology came from, why it’s important, and where we’re going with it.

Why I Love My Job
Early in my engineering career, my boss/mentor at the time told me something I've never forgotten: According to polls (he said), among engineers who say they love their jobs, the thing they like best about them is that "they get to work with smart people&...

What’s Up? I was recently selected to be the conference chair of the 41st annual SIGGRAPH conference. For those who are unfamiliar, SIGGRAPH is the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) special interest group on computer graphics and interactive techniques. This huge conference regularly draws tens of thousands of attendees for its technical papers program, educational courses, lively panel discussions, art and technology showcases, electronic theater, and exhibition floor. If your senses are in need of an overload, this is the place to go!

Having attended the conference annually for more than half of my life, and actively presented at it over the last decade, being selected to chair the conference is a great personal honor, huge responsibility, and an immense opportunity.

Background. While a widely-held view of SIGGRAPH is that it’s only about creating sexy pixels, it’s also totally about interactive techniques. A large part of my career has been involved in getting damp life forms interacting with dry silicon: from my early work on flight...