Beyond the Arm Newsroom: What’s new at Arm in March 2024?
Your editors at the Arm Newsroom Blog are ever vigilant in the search for the latest and most fascinating technology trends and stories at any moment. While the Newsroom Blog’s mission is to deliver analysis and thought leadership that gives readers a view of what’s “just around the bend,” we’re adding a feature pointing readers to great technology stories in other channels of the Arm universe.
Here’s a curated list of what caught our eye recently.
Arm Community
To Neoverse and beyond….
Following the recent Neoverse launch, colleagues from Arm’s Infrastructure Line of Business provide technical deep-dives exploring the latest Neoverse products covering new compute subsystems (CSS) and system IP. These include:
This was followed by a guest blog from Marius Vöhringer, Director of Cloud Transformation and Sustainable IT, Capgemini, who looked at the reduced energy consumption and costs in the AWS Cloud that are made possible by the new generation of Arm-based CPUs. Meanwhile, Arm’s Marc Meunier provided details about a new whitepaper that outlines how to achieve high performance and efficiency with firewalls and networking workloads on Arm Neoverse.
The automotive computing transformation
As part of the new suite of automotive technologies announced by Arm, Madhusudan Rao, Arm’s Functional Safety Lead, provided more details about the functional safety capabilities across Arm’s new Automotive Enhanced (AE) IP in this blog. Alongside the new hardware, Rao also outlines the comprehensive package of software support for functional safety covering software test libraries (STLs), tools and compilers.
Also, in the run-up to the Arm automotive launch, Arm’s Prakash Mohapatra offered guidance to partners on migrating existing software from Cortex-M Armv7-M based designs to Cortex-R Armv8-R based designs in this blog. This is part of a broader move to zonal controllers in E/E architectures within the automotive industry.
New Distinguished Arm Ambassadors
As the Arm Developer Program surpasses 9,000 members, Gemma Platt, Head of Developer Marketing, introduced 14 new “Distinguished Arm Ambassadors” in this blog. These ambassadors are highly active across a variety of software communities worldwide and already play pivotal roles in the Arm Developer Program educating and growing the developer community.
One of these new Distinguished Arm Ambassadors, Ajeet Singh Raina, provided a detailed rundown of how developers can supercharge their Arm builds with Docker Build Cloud in this blog. Docker Build Cloud aims to transform the building process for Arm-based applications through offering greater speed, efficiency and simplicity during the development process. Expect more technical blogs from these Distinguished Arm Ambassadors in the future!
Arm Mobile Studio becomes Arm Performance Studio
Arm’s Julie Gaskin announced that Arm Mobile Studio is changing its name to Arm Performance Studio in this blog. There will be no reduction in the functionality and all the tools are still available for free to developers looking to optimize the performance and efficiency of their applications. The name change reflects the fact that these free tools are not just limited to mobile applications.
One of these tools is Performance Advisor, with Arm Software Engineer Connor Brookes outlining several new features for custom reporting when using the tool in this blog. Users of Performance Advisor can create custom reports that allow them to tailor the data they see in the performance report of their application to exact requirements. The new features give users an even greater degree of control over what they see in their reports.
Arm Tech Talks
Arm’s Tobias McBride, partner ecosystem manager, always seems to be everywhere at once, whether he’s at Mobile World Congress or Embedded World covering all the cool innovations coming from Arm partners the Arm Tech Talks program. Here’s a few recent gems worth diving into on YouTube:
Softbank on the AI-RAN Alliance: Toby puts down his paella in Barcelona for a moment to chat with Softbank’s Kazuhiro Hariba about the launch of the AI-RAN Alliance, a new initiative that aims to integrate AI and radio access network for faster and more secure network services. The alliance brings together industry leaders such as SoftBank, Arm, Nvidia, and many others who share a vision of transforming the communication business with AI applications. Here’s the segment:
Synaptics at the Edge: Far from the clinking of coins in Las Vegas casinos, Toby interviews Arm partner Synaptics at CES 2024. There, the company showcased a wide range of products and demos, including Astra product line, smart MCU, high-end multimedia processors, and Wi-Fi sensing technology. Synaptics builds its products on a wide portfolio of Arm processors, including Cortex R, Cortex A, and Cortex M, for a seamless unified experience for AI developers. And it leverages Arm Virtual Hardware and security technologies in its development and deployment of AI on the edge. Here Synaptics’ Elad Baram, product manager of smart MCUs, gives us a deep dive into evolving AI at the edge:
Renesas and IoT: If you are looking for high-performance and secure 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the Arm Cortex M85 core, you might want to check out the new RA8 series from Renesas. These MCUs are designed for a variety of applications that require DSP and AI/ML capabilities, such as industrial, smart metering, consumer products, medical devices, smart home, and building automation. They also come with flexible software packages, integrated development environments, and support for various Arm debug IPs to help you develop your AI and ML applications with ease. Here Toby does a deep dive with experts from Renesas to learn more about the features and benefits of the RA8 series MCUs:
Arm Developers Weekly Dose
Arm developer evangelist Gabriel Peterson chimes in from Arm Developer’s Weekly Dose show with updates, among other things, on Panther, the open-source driver for third-generation Arm Valhall GPUs, an interactive climbing wall powered by a Raspberry Pi and news about various operating systems compatible with the Raspberry Pi 5, including Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, Armbian, OpenELEC, Linux Libre, and Recalbox.
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+ That's without compromising AI innovation: https://okt.to/WM0F3A
Arm KleidiAI brings 30% performance improvements to @Google AI Edge's MediaPipe and XNNPACK running the Gemma 2B LLM. 💪
This is the first integration of many, as we enable more LLMs to run as effectively and efficiently as possible on Arm mobile CPUs: https://okt.to/qLW8He
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Since 2012, Raspberry Pi's been changing the game for businesses in the ecosystem.🚀
Founder & CEO, Eben Upton shares the origin story of Raspberry Pi and why he chose Arm as the architecture of choice:
Interview recorded in Jan 2023.
Arm Education in Conversation with Eben Upton
In this episode, we interview Eben Upton, founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd. Eben shares with us the...
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In the age of AI, collaboration is crucial to solve technological and societal challenges.
Together with a group of academics at our Cambridge office, we've developed a "Call for Action," identifying the steps needed to ensure AI adoption in both the public and private sectors.
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👉 Say hello to Arm Accuracy Super Resolution
It's our open source solution derived from FSR2, designed to increase the resolution of images from low to high with our efficient shader code:
.@AWSCloud Graviton4 is here! 🙌
Announced in GA, Graviton4 uses Arm Neoverse V2 to provide the most powerful, energy efficient AWS processor to date.
It follows 5+ years of collaboration on Graviton to enable CPU silicon innovation in the Amazon Cloud: https://okt.to/UWM0FR
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Dive into the step-by-step guide in the link below.
⚡ Silicon is defining and revolutionizing technology.
With the help of our partners, we're at the forefront of its evolution, driving innovative new approaches to silicon design with CSS and chiplets to define the future of computing.
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Paid Program: The Evolution of Silicon
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Arm CSS for Client is unleashing the power of the Armv9 architecture for AI innovation.
CSS for Client delivers physical implementations across Arm CPUs and GPUs, simplifying SoC builds for the fastest path to production silicon.
Learn more👇 https://okt.to/Q3yLjc
The advancements in large multimodal models and GenAI herald a new era in AI robotics.
That’s why tomorrow's robotics are harnessing the power of LLMs to improve energy efficiency, security, and functional safety.
🦾 And it's all happening #onArm: https://okt.to/6nbZ9m
The world's leading AI companies are prioritizing data center efficiency to scale and grow. And they're doing it #onArm.
Arm CMO Ami Badani joined The Artificial Human Podcast to discuss why efficiency is crucial to driving AI innovation.
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Here's a glimpse of our #INWED24 celebrations in Kenya, Ghana and Switzerland.
The Arm-Ambassador-led events brought everyone together to celebrate the significant impact of women engineers and to inspire future innovators to help bridge the STEM gap: https://okt.to/9ZAuna
Find $ARM in the Nasdaq-100 Index from today. 🙌
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🥳 Our partners @HPE and @NVIDIA are making turnkey private-cloud AI a reality!
Announced this week, NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE brings the power and efficiency of Grace Hopper Superchips, built #onArm, to the HPE ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12 server.
HPE ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12 | HPE Store United Kingdom
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For #WorldRefugeeDay, we're celebrating our partnership with @Refugees & @UNRefugeesUK to ensure AI tools for humanitarian efforts are used responsibly.
By supporting @UNHCRinnovation, we can ensure diversity is built into tools from the ground up:
We're putting the foundations in place for a thriving, diverse, chiplet ecosystem in Automotive.
From participation in @imec_int's Automotive Chiplet Program, to our role in SOAFEE, here's how we're ensuring interoperability and performance for chiplets: https://okt.to/eBfYgd
Here's to our fantastic, award-winning Internal Comms team. 👏
At the #ICEAwards, the team took home 3️⃣ awards for:
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Rene Haas joined the Samsung Foundry Forum to discuss our almost 30-year partnership and the possibilities of Arm CSS.
By removing the complexity from SoC development, Arm CSS enables our partners to move faster in the age of AI, with the support of partners like Samsung.
