NVIDIA's next AI steps: An ARM deal and a new 'personal supercomputer'

Soon you won't need one of NVIDIA's tiny Jetson systems if you want to tap into its AI smarts for smaller devices. At its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) today, the company announced it'll be bringing its open source Deep Learning Architecture (NVDLA) over to ARM's upcoming Project Trillium platform, which is focused on mobile AI. Specifically, NVDLA will help developers by accelerating inferencing, the processing of using trained neural networks to perform specific tasks. While it's a surprising move for NVIDIA, which typically relies on its own closed platforms, it makes a lot of sense. NVIDIA already relies on ARM designs for its Jetson and Tegra systems.