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Arm showed me the future of mobile gaming at MWC 2025


Arm demoed its ASR upscaling tech at MWC 2025, and I'm excited for it to debut on phones.

(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, audio products, storage servers, and networking gear. (Image credit: Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central)I also asked about the recent trend with mobile platforms where manufacturers like MediaTek and Qualcomm are leveraging big cores exclusively in their products instead of the heterogenous configurations we've seen in years past. The idea is to execute a task as fast as possible — such as an app launch — and go back to idle state to maximize efficiency, and this is what makes devices like the Vivo X200 Pro last at least a day and a half even though it is made up entirely of powerful cores.

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