Is the AI chip dead? What Arm’s new CPUs mean for your next Android phone

The conversation around mobile AI has been dominated by talk of NPUs, TPUs, and dedicated neural accelerators. But what if your phone’s general-purpose CPU could shoulder that burden instead? Arm is betting big on exactly that with its new C2-Ultra, the powerhouse architecture set to define the next generation of 2027 flagships — from the latest MediaTek and Samsung silicon to, perhaps, Google’s future Tensor chipsets.