After a very long time, Arm has introduced a major update unveiling the biggest technical overhaul with Armv9. With this new chip, Arm is all set to give a very tough market competition to Intel which is the world’s biggest chipmaker. With Armv9 the company has implemented major modifications to the chips, the first being Artificial Intelligence (AI). The AI revolution is a major breakthrough of this century unleashing new potential for every industry. And, Arm has designed the new chip to handle the capabilities of machine learning (ML) for security and other purposes.
Major Upgrades by ARM
Every day millions of devices are getting connected with the help of the internet and Arm is trying to enhance the computing abilities with its products. With the help of advanced architectural chips powered by AI, many devices are exploring new capabilities. The AI software helps greatly many industries to be very dynamic and provide real-time solutions and updates. With the launch of Armv9, the company has said that the upgrades are needed to support the spread of computing beyond phones, PCs, and servers. Arm wants the presence of its technology everywhere and that it becomes the next big solution for the tech industry.
Simon Segars, CEO of Arm, said that “As we look toward a future that will be defined by AI, we must lay a foundation of leading-edge compute that will be ready to address the unique challenges to come.” He further explained that Armv9 is the next computing answer for the industries trying to harness the power of AI and at the same time keeping the security in check. The company’s next 300 billion Arm-based chips will be driven by extremely powerful design and security.
Source: arm.com
Arm’s technology and processor designs are currently dominant in the smartphone industry but the company is gradually trying to expand in PCs and server fields as well. Currently, it sells its designs and licenses an instruction set to Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm.
The New Armv9 Architecture
As the number of chips designed and shipped by Arm increases every year, very soon 100 percent of the world’s shared data will be processed on Arm. With the increasing demand for Arm’s chip, the responsibility of the company increases as well to enhance the capabilities for improved performance and better security. According to the company, these are two main priorities of Armv9 and that it will accelerate to provide more specific computing for AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G gain momentum.
Enhanced security
To tackle the security problem that is increasing in the tech world much rapidly, Arm is introducing the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA). This feature will help shield portions of code and data from access or modification while in-use, even from privileged software, by performing the computation in a hardware-based secure environment.
Henry Sanders, corporate vice president and chief technology officer, Azure Edge and Platforms at Microsoft said that “The increasing complexity of use cases from edge to cloud cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all solution.” Due to this reason heterogeneous computing is becoming more versatile and hence in demand among hardware and software developers.
Source: arm.com
Arm has made this possible in collaboration with Microsoft thus establishing a synergy between hardware and software. Arm has the capability of powering billions of devices and connecting them in a heterogeneous computing ecosystem.
Better performance through system design
Arm’s chip design has always increased the CPU performance and Armv9 will continue to do so. Arm says that the Armv9 generation will increase the CPU performance by 30 percent over the next two generations of mobile and infrastructure CPUs. So, Arm’s Total Compute Design methodology will accelerate overall compute performance through focused system-level hardware and software optimizations and an increase in use-case performance (Arm.com).
The new Armv9 design will give a tough competition to Intel as many companies are slowly inclining towards Arm’s processors.
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