Sumo Digital is collaborating with chip manufacturer Arm to help evaluate how neural technology can be applied to mobile games. The UK company said the move has allowed it to experiment with AI-driven graphics in a production quality environment.
Arm’s neural technology was announced in August 2025 and is set to ship in Arm GPUs this year. It will purportedly enable PC-quality graphics on mobile for the first time.
Sumo Digital CEO Gary Dunn said the company is specifically working with Arm to deliver a “technical implementation” of the technology. “Arm neural technology will represent a paradigm shift for what’s possible with video games on mobile,” he added in a press release.
“We’re working with Arm on a project that demonstrates the capabilities of the technology and look forward to sharing some demos at GDC this week.”
An explainer on the Arm developer website states the company’s neural graphics technology is capable of delivering up to 50 percent GPU workload savings in addition to up to 2x frame rate on neural hardware with trainable models.
Chris Bergey, EVP of the Edge AI business unit at Arm, said the collaboration with Sumo will ease the on-ramp for other developers looking to raise the bar for graphics on mobile.
For Sumo, news of the collaboration comes just weeks after the Tencent subsidiary announced another round of layoffs in a purported bid to adapt to “ongoing instability.”
Those cuts were made around one year after the company outlined plans to pivot away from original franchises and focus on co-development work. It was a move that resulted in the company parting ways with internal studio The Chinese Room and publishing division Secret Mode.
