ARM Mali Explained and Future Direction of DTV Graphics

Over at ARM there is a "confidential" presentation, freely available. It makes very interesting reading about the current generation of ARM Mali processors, their target performances, availability and future roadmap.

For me there are two very interesting slides. The first is this one, you can click on it to enlarge it:
This slide shows that mali-200 will cope with FLASH lite at low resolutions (SD I guess), but will struggle with FLASH 10 at lower HD resolution. Only Mali-400 will cope with FLASH 10 easily. Its noticeable as well that video post processing - something shaders should be good at - will only be good with the Mali-400. This makes me wonder what the chip manufacturers will ship in 2010? 400 or 200? Even an HD TV GUI is borderline according to ARM. Perhaps its ARM upselling the 400 but the diagram is a little worrying. Anyone from ARM care to comment?

The second slide is only academically interesting at this stage:
There is a real mixture here. Power comsumption is mostly for mobile devices. Composition is of most interest to DTV and comes as a software layer it seems, whilst geometry shaders and OpenCL would be of main interest to gamers with advanced rendering engines and physics.

Love the gal with the crystal ball.