Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM said today that the company has developed higher-end Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors. ARM claims that the new processors will have graphics capabilities comparable to Xbox 360. The Mali graphics processor lineup will have 4x Anti-Aliasing and it would be able to push up to 16x without much decrease in battery life. Both the processors will support shader-based OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard and they will render 16 million triangles per second (275 million pixel/second). Flash and Java support will also be included.

The Mali-200 will be a single-core 100MHz processor, whereas Mali-400 will support multicore and it can be scaled up to quad-core at 300MHz. The Mali-400 will be able to decode 1080p video. ARM will demo a port of Project Gotham Racer – an Xbox game running on Mali chip at Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. Pedersen told PC World, “Performance-wise, it runs like the original Xbox, but feature-wise it looks like an Xbox 360 title.”

ARM will start sampling Mali chips in Q3 2009 and devices based on the new chip should be ready as early as winter this year.