To accelerate autonomous decision-making with safety capability across automotive and industrial applications, the British semiconductor and software design company Arm recently unveiled new computing solutions. The company that was acquired by the semiconductor giant NVIDIA believes that autonomous systems in automotive and industrial automation will be an $8 billion silicon opportunity in 2030.
The new suite of IP includes the Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU, Arm Mali-G78AE GPU, and Arm Mali-C71AE ISP, engineered to work together in combination with supporting software, tools and system IP to enable silicon providers and OEMs to design for autonomous workloads.
Arm Cortex-A78AE is Arm’s high performance CPU with safety, Arm Mali-G78AE is Arm’s safety capable GPU, and Arm Mali-C71AE enables safety for vision use cases.
The company claims that the unique suite of technology prioritizes safety while delivering highly scalable, power efficient compute to enable autonomous decision-making across new automotive and industrial opportunities.
These products will be deployed in a range of applications, from enabling more intelligence and configurability in smart manufacturing to enhancing ADAS and digital cockpit applications in automotive.
Arm is working to accelerate the development of software that will fully realize the benefits of these new technologies through initiatives such as Project Cassini, aimed at laying the foundation for the adoption of cloud native software paradigms across the entirety of edge computing.
The company is also is also working with multiple open source communities and specialist software vendors to widely enable the autonomous software ecosystem, adopting innovations from the established cloud native ecosystem, and collaboratively driving new development to support the features required for autonomous workloads.
