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Arm Holdings, renowned for its pivotal role in the smartphone industry, unveiled new chip blueprints and software tools on Wednesday to bolster artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in smartphones. These advancements, alongside changes in blueprint delivery, are set to accelerate the adoption and enhance the performance of AI tasks on mobile devices.
Historically, Arm’s technology has been integral to the smartphone revolution and is now gaining traction in PCs and data centers due to its energy efficiency. Smartphones, however, remain Arm’s largest market, supplying intellectual property to major players like Apple and Android chip suppliers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek.
The new launch includes advanced designs for central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), specifically optimized for AI operations. Additionally, Arm will offer software tools to simplify the integration of chatbots and other AI applications on its chips.
A significant shift in Arm’s approach lies in how it delivers these products. Traditionally, Arm provided specifications or abstract designs, leaving chip companies to develop physical blueprints. This process involves intricate decisions on arranging billions of transistors. For the latest products, Arm collaborated with Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to deliver ready-to-manufacture physical blueprints.
Chris Bergey, senior vice president and general manager of Arm’s client line of business, emphasized that Arm is not competing with its customers but aims to expedite their market entry. By focusing on other critical aspects of chips, such as neural processing units (NPUs) essential for optimal AI performance, Arm provides a platform where these accelerators can be seamlessly integrated.
This move is particularly crucial as companies like Microsoft highlight the necessity of NPUs for their latest AI features. Although Arm does not currently supply NPU technology for phones and PCs, Bergey indicated that the company intends to offer more comprehensive designs that chip manufacturers can enhance with their NPUs.
“We’re combining a platform where these accelerators can be very tightly coupled,” Bergey explained, underscoring Arm’s commitment to fostering faster and more efficient AI integration in mobile technology.
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