Arm has revealed new tools for chips and software to assist smartphones in handling artificial intelligence tasks, alongside changes in how these tools are presented, which could help accelerate their adoption.
The company’s technology has bolstered the presence of smartphones, which are present in computers and data centers, as chip designers are attracted to the efficiency of their energy usage.
Smartphones remain Arm’s largest standalone market, as the company provides intellectual property to its competitors such as MediaTek and Qualcomm.
Arm has launched new designs for central processing units and graphics processing units, which it claims are suitable for artificial intelligence work.
It also provides software tools that make it easier for developers to run chatbots and other artificial intelligence products on Arm chips.
The major change is in how these products are sold.
In the past, the company mostly offered its technology as specifications or abstract designs that chip companies then needed to convert into a physical chip layout, a process that is not simple in determining how to arrange billions of transistors and small switches that make up the chip.
Regarding the new products, Arm worked with Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to provide ready-made physical design schematics for manufacturing.
Arm stated that it is not trying to compete with its customers, but wants to help customers access the market quickly, focusing on other important parts of both computer and phone chips, such as neuron processing units for handling artificial intelligence.
Neuron processing units have become so essential that Microsoft said its modern artificial intelligence capabilities will not work without them.
Arm currently does not offer neuron processing units for phones and computers, and the company aims to provide additional complete designs that chip companies can connect to their neuron processing units.
