In the mobile computing market today, it is often difficult for advanced graphics to be implemented without having some sort of hardware drawback at hand. The limitations that arise can be anything from cooling high performance components to creating more efficient battery types and power conservation methods.

As a proposed solution, Intel researchers have recently announced plans for a Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) parallel accelerator for small devices that consumes about ten times less energy than the accelerators used today. The SIMD would effectively get around these limitations by executing multiple computing instructions at once which could in turn render faster onscreen graphics.

The parallelism of a SIMD is very similar to that of a superscalar CPU in that it can process multiple instructions at once. However, it is different from the ARM11 architecture which utilizes an eight-stage pipeline that supports out-of-order execution. With this in mind, it doesn't look as if Intel is directly trying to compete with ARM, but rather it is simply taking a different approach to the mobile limitations at hand.

According to Intel, this advancement could enable richer multimedia and more immersive visuals, particularly on Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and other small devices in the future. We are interested to see how the development process of this solution expands over time.