Arm’s latest IP launch offers the scale and performance for a range of devices, from the very lowest-power wearables all the way up to the highest-performance laptops.
Arm on Tuesday launched its “Total Compute” solutions, a suite of IP with the flexibility to power a range of devices, from the very lowest-power wearables and smart home devices, all the way up to the highest-performance laptops. The new Armv9 architecture serves as the foundation for the Total Compute portfolio, which includes new Arm Cortex CPUs, Mali GPUs and new CoreLink Interconnect technology. The new suite of IP “meets this trend of purpose-built compute that we’re seeing — people taking the smartphone SOC approach and using it for these different markets,” Paul Williamson, SVP and GM of Arm’s Client business, said to ZDNet. Increasingly, the smartphone SOC is a mixture of a core CPU cluster, which handles major applications, coupled with dedicated accelerators for key tasks such as launching games. This sort of SOC allows devices to offer better battery life and performance in smaller, thinner form factors, and it allows for richer experiences in wearables.
