ARM unveils mobile machine learning processor Project Trillium

ARM is unveiling its ambitious new machine learning processor platform, dubbed Project Trillium. The platform includes processors and sensors for improving artificial intelligence operations in mobile devices at the edge of networks, rather than in data centers. ARM has created a high-end processor to handle machine learning calculations, or those that enable computers to learn without explicitly being programmed to perform certain tasks. "Project Trillium is a whole new class of product with hardware and software," said Jem Davies, vice president, fellow, and general manager of ARM's Machine Learning Group. "We looked at GPUs (graphics processing units) and CPUs (central processing units), but it became clear that executing with the best efficiency required a ground-up design specific to machine learning."