next-gen chip design
ARM's next-gen chip design puts the focus on artificial intelligence
ARM tipped its hand today with the announcement of DynamIQ, a new technology it says will lay the groundwork for its next generation of mobile processors. Like other mobile chip makers, the company's got a lot to contend with when it comes to future-proofing its offerings, and certainly ARM's making some pretty big claims for what it's calling its "biggest micro-architectural shift since […] 2011" Central to the company's speed boasts are its focus on future artificial intelligence, an aspect of technology that will continue to grow more central to mobile computing over the next several years, both through the proliferation of smart-assistants, autonomous vehicles and beyond. The chipmaker certainly isn't being modest in its AI claims, with a stated 50x boost in performance for the technology over the next three to five years, a number it says is potentially "conservative […] as its only building out projections based on AI algorithms they know about or have access to." Nor is ARM understated in its planned ubiquity for the technology. As with offerings from other mobile chip makers, the company is targeting a wide range of different computing platforms that move well beyond mobile.