More Details Emerge About Arm's Machine Learning

Arm is definitely targeting deep-neural-network (DNN) machine-learning (ML) applications with its proposed hardware designs, but its initial ML hardware descriptions were a bit vague (Figure 1). Though the final details aren't ready yet, ARM has exposed more of the architecture. The Arm ML processor is supported by the company's Neural Network (NN) software development kit that bridges the interface between ML software and the underlying hardware. This allows developers to target Arm's CPU, GPU, and ML processors. In theory, waiting for the ML hardware will allow a critical mass of software to be available when the real hardware finally arrives.