NVIDIA And Arm Partnership To Bring Deep Learning Technology To IoT Devices

NVIDIA and Arm just announced that they are partnering to bring deep learning inferencing technology to mobile, consumer electronics and the Internet of Things devices. As a result of the partnership, NVIDIA and Arm will integrate NVIDIA's open-source Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) architecture into Arm's Project Trillium platform for machine learning. "Accelerating AI at the edge is critical in enabling Arm's vision of connecting a trillion IoT devices," said Rene Haas, executive vice president, and president of the IP Group, at Arm. "Today we are one step closer to that vision by incorporating NVDLA into the Arm Project Trillium platform, as our entire ecosystem will immediately benefit from the expertise and capabilities our two companies bring in AI and IoT." The collaboration is meant to simplify integration of AI into IoT device and chip companies. Arm's Project Trillium is integral to the Arm Heterogenous ML compute platform, and leverages Arm ML processors, the Arm object detection (OD) processor, and open-source Arm NN software. NVIDIA's NVDLA is a free, open architecture meant to promote a standard method to design deep learning inference accelerators.