On the same day Apple revealed its new iPhone 17 lineup , chip designer Arm is introducing its next generation of processors bundled into its new Arm Lumex platform. These processors will likely make their way into premium Android phones coming in 2026 -- and improve their AI capabilities without draining device batteries faster, Arm says.

"It's pretty amazing how there's been kind of this insatiable amount of performance being asked for [by our customers], and a lot of it's around AI, as well as some graphics workloads," said Chris Bergey, senior vice president and general manager of Arm's client line of business.

Arm's processors have traditionally been the centerpieces of holistic systems-on-a-chip, which power smartphones. For instance, Arm's previous top-end central processing u

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