NVIDIA and ARM want to bring deep learning to your IoT projects

NVIDIA has announced a partnership with Internet of Things (IoT) chip designer ARM, aimed at advancing the acceleration of inferencing by making it simple for IoT chip companies to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their designs. During his keynote at NVIDIA GTC in San Jose on Tuesday, company CEO and founder Jensen Huang explained that the partnership will see the open source NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA) architecture integrated into Arm's Project Trillium for machine learning. NVDLA is based on NVIDIA Xavier, touted by the GPU giant as being a "powerful autonomous machine system on a chip." According to Huang, this will provide a free, open architecture to promote a standard way to design deep learning inference. "Inferencing will become a core capability of every IoT device in the future," NVIDIA vice president and general manager of Autonomous Machines, Deepu Talla, said during a press briefing.