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Five years in development: Arm's AI gaming chip arrives first in China inside the Xiaomi 18 Fold

9/8/2026

A GPU, the processor inside a device that renders everything visible on screen, just picked up a capability that Arm's mobile chips have not carried before.

After five years of development, Arm has built an AI gaming graphics accelerator into its Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU.

That processor launched today inside the Xiaomi 18 Fold's custom Xring O3 chip, giving mainland China first access to British technology that Arm says could bring PC-style gaming visuals to phones without increasing power consumption.

What Arm built The short version: Arm followed Nvidia's approach to PC graphics and applied it to mobile.