Arm Unveils New AI Group

No details on CPU, GPU, specialty cores

Rick Merritt, EETimes
10/26/2017 00:01 AM EDT

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A new machine learning group at ARM will create accelerator cores, blocks for its CPU and GPU cores and software to tie it all together. Exactly what the group will deliver and when remains under covers.

Analysts suggest ARM could be as much as three years behind products from rivals such as Cadence, Ceva and Synopsys. ARM counters it’s still early days for emerging markets where software is rapidly evolving, and lots of AI tasks are already running on its exiting cores.

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