Consumer Devices
and Wearables

Successfully address a wide range of device
development challenges with a transformative
design strategy and advanced tools.

Consumer Devices and Wearables

By consistently innovating underlying technologies, Google is creating a
transformation in smart devices from thermostats, doorbells, locks, and
refrigerators to watches, smartphones, fitness trackers, key chains, speakers,
and many others.

Google has a relentless focus on delivering the best possible user experience, and Arm supports this through its approach to IP development. Arm has a wide range of IP to help Google companies address their engineering challenges.

Arm’s focus on the user extends to the wider ecosystem through its IP, ways of working, and in-depth expertise, enabling Google engineers and developers to create landmark devices. For example:

Google Pixel 7 smartphones are powered by Arm 64-based system-on-chip (SoC) processors, helping drive advancements in speech, photography, video technology, and security.
The Arm ecosystem is the world’s largest compute ecosystem supporting silicon, system, and software companies responsible for shipping more than 250 billion Arm-based chips to date.

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Total Compute SoC design

Arm Total Compute is a transformative strategy for designing computing solutions, shifting from a product-evolution focus to use-case-driven solutions. This enables Google companies to adopt a unique approach to SoC design.

Arm Total Compute is built on three key pillars:

Compute performance
Security
Developer access

It provides frameworks for programming, analyzing, and debugging across all IP, including our range of CPUs and GPUs. This reduces the number of tools and development processes and improves programmability across all domains. This translates to a seamless experience, and reduced costs and time to market.

Arm Total Compute helps ensure that Arm cores can be adopted quickly on the most advanced process technologies, which reduces time to market for Google companies developing SoCs.

The evolving range of technology components under the Arm Total Compute umbrella includes physical IP, software, tools, standards, and hardware IP, such as Armv9 Cortex CPUs, Immortalis and Mali GPUs, Interconnect and System IP technologies, and Cortex-M and Cortex-R CPU processors.

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Google Development and Arm IP

Google’s design principle, focus on the user and all else will follow, is mirrored by Arm’s pioneering approach to high-performance and energy-efficient computing, bringing the two together in a unified approach to development.

Android and Wear OS are the cornerstones of Google wearable and consumer device innovations. Arm IP dovetails perfectly with these operating systems.

This is because we take the same top-down approach to design as Google, from research to tooling, libraries and consultancy, to simplified but advanced technology development.

For instance, Arm Cortex-A and Cortex-M processors, and the extensive ecosystem that supports them, deliver advanced signal-processing capabilities, low power consumption and long battery life, making them ideal for consumer devices and wearables.

Arm Cortex-A

Arm Cortex-A is a group of 32-bit and
64-bit RISC processor cores intended for application use.

The extensive range of Cortex-A processors
is optimized specifically to deliver small, efficient, and powerful computing for consumer devices and wearables.
They are designed for devices undertaking complex compute tasks, such as hosting a rich operating platform and supporting multiple software applications.
They seamlessly support 32-bit and 64-bit
code, and provide a balance between power
and performance.

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Arm Cortex-M

Arm Cortex-M processors are optimized for low-cost and energy-efficient integrated circuits embedded in consumer devices. To date, they have been used in billions of devices.

Arm Cortex-M is a group of 32-bit RISC Arm processor cores that are optimized for low cost and energy efficiency across a broad range of devices.
Cortex-M3 is ideal for products such as microcontrollers, automotive body systems, wireless networking, and the heart of a sensor hub.
As high-performance embedded processors, Cortex-M is developed to address digital signal control markets that require an efficient, easy-to-use blend of control and signal processing capabilities.

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Immortalis: Ground Breaking Performance

The latest graphics features are made possible by Immortalis-G715, including hardware-based ray tracing support for more realistic and immersive mobile experiences, variable rating shading, and additional graphics enhancements.

For developers and engineers, Immortalis provides the ability to reach new levels of super smooth UI experiences.

Immortalis-G715 delivers 2x architectural machine learning (ML) improvements for graphics experiences.
Its the most efficient GPU from Arm, with 15 percent energy efficiency improvements.
Developers have the widest range of resources and tools to choose from.

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Lots of Application Choices for Mali GPU

The Arm Mali range of GPUs is optimized for performance, power, and energy efficiency to target premium, mainstream, and entry-level mobile and wearable devices.

Mali’s mobile heritage and industry-leading features make these GPUs the most pervasive across mobile devices, with 9 billion units shipped by our partners to date.

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Building the Best Implementations

The Arm architecture is at the core of billions of devices. Arm software developers build products that help Google engineers and developers create advanced device tech that can change the world.

Extensive tools and resources are available to help you in your developments:

Arm Developer Program
Mali GPU training guide
Developer guide
Tutorials
Best practices
Application software

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Sustainability Through Reduced Energy Consumption

Energy efficiency is one of the ways that Arm supports its partners in achieving their sustainability goals. Our technology is inherently low power, helping to reduce energy consumption.

Arm removes barriers to enable smaller, more responsive wearable and consumer devices with low-power IP that provides high performance within size and power constrained settings.

By driving down energy consumption and the associated carbon footprint, we help our partners reduce environmental impacts.

For instance, the Arm low-power platform provides the fundamental building blocks to design high-performance, energy-efficient SoCs for handheld consumer products.

Plus, Arm provides the widest range of secure, low-power, high-performing, processor core IP for devices across all consumer devices and wearables.

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As one of the world’s leading tech companies, Google has the power and influence to make an exceptional impact on the development of smart consumer devices and wearables.