ARM Details "Project Trillium" Machine Learning Processor Architecture

Arm first announced Project Trillium machine learning IPs back in February and we were promised we'd be hearing more about the product in a few months' time. Project Trillium is unusual for Arm to talk about because the IP hasn't been finalised yet and won't be finished until this summer, yet Arm made sure not to miss out on the machine learning and AI "hype train" that has happened over the last 8 months in both the semiconductor industry and as well as particularly in the mobile industry. Today Arm details more of the architecture of what Arm now seems to more consistently call their "machine learning processor" or MLP from here on now. The MLP IP started off a blank sheet in terms of architecture implementation and the team consists of engineers pulled off from the CPU and GPU teams. With the MLP Arm set out to provide three key aspects that are demanded in machine learning IPs: Efficiency of convolutional computations, efficient data movement, and sufficient programmability.