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While the biggest Arm news this quarter is obviously it’s $40 billion acquisition by Nvidia, it’s clear that this Cambridge based giant isn’t taking its foot off the pedal, and is still very focused on being an industry leader.
Announcing new IP including the Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, Mali-G78AE GPU, and Mali-C71AE ISP, Arm has designed a unique suite of technology that prioritizes safety while delivering highly scalable, power-efficient computing that will enable autonomous decision-making across new automotive and industrial opportunities.
These new processors are intended to work in tandem with supporting software and tools to enhance the autonomous workload capabilities of silicon providers and original equipment manufacturers.
This should make it easier for autonomous car developers to bring their designs to market and help companies address many of the consumer concerns regarding the security of connected devices and appliances in the home.
“Autonomy has the potential to improve every aspect of our lives, but only if built on a safe and secure computing foundation.” Chet Babla, VP of Automotive and IoT at Arm
The highlight is the Cortex-A78AE, which is now Arm’s highest-performance CPU which claims to offer a 30 percent boost in performance compared to its predecessor, and can support complex workloads for autonomous applications such as mobile robotics and driverless vehicles.
Designed with the automotive industry in mind, the Cortex-A78AE supports automotive standard ISO 26262 as well as IEC 61508 for industrial safety.
Arm have already made use of their potential new parent company (and lead partner for the new Arm CPU) NVIDIA who delivers the advanced performance and safety these edge AI systems require with our next-generation NVIDIA Orin SoC.
“Powerful new processing capabilities are needed to enable future autonomous vehicles and machines” Gary Hicok, senior vice president of hardware development at NVIDIA.
The Mali-G78AE is the latest addition to what is arguably the world’s most popular line of GPU’s. The new Mali is “Arm’s first GPU to be designed for safety”, rather than taking the more traditional focus on increased computer performance.
The flexible partitioning allows for up to four independent partitions to separate workloads for safety use-cases and resources can also now be utilised for safety-enabled human-machine interfaces or for the heterogeneous computing required in autonomous systems.
Arm provides the example of a connected vehicle with an infotainment system, instrument cluster with ASIL B requirements, and a driver monitoring system. These systems can now all run at the same time with hardware separation for safety.
“The requirements for higher level of driver automation, electrification and immersive in-vehicle experiences are continually growing, and scalable, heterogenous, safe compute is critical in order to meet the requirements of future vehicle electronics systems,” Alexander Hitzinger, senior vice president for autonomous driving at Volkswagen.
And lastly, the Mali-C71AE provides increased support for computer vision-based applications in automotive and industrial settings. Mali-C71AE can achieve ASIL B / SIL2 safety capability and supports four real-time cameras – or up to 16 buffered cameras – with a total throughput of 1.2 gigapixels per second.
Arm’s architecture is already powering key industrial solutions as well as many other devices used every day around the world (tens of billions of ICs annually), and we see Arm’s new technologies are a great example of how the UK tech industry is at the very forefront in the development of robotics and moving us closer to true autonomy in the automotive industry.
As mentioned in a previous post – The Impacts of Brexit, ensuring British innovative companies like Arm continue to be based in the UK and the government’s plans to build to aid the expansion of the UK tech market will play a big part in the wider UK economy post Brexit.
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