Arm CEO Rene Haas delivered a keynote speech on the opening day of Computex 2024 in Taiwan. During the keynote, he shared how the company plans to enable 100+ billion Arm devices ready for AI from cloud to edge by 2025.
Arm AI Plans – Computex 2024
Do we have enough energy for AI?
One of the key quests Haas addressed was if the world has enough energy to power the increasing computing needs of AI.
The company’s DNA is born of devices designed to run off batteries, Haas believes this is why we’re seeing greater adoption of Arm by leading cloud service providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft. Arm and the power savings it delivers are already driving incredible AI innovation according to Haas.
It’s all about the software
In addition to the leading power efficiency, according to Haas, what makes the company unique is a software ecosystem unlike any other.
Arm has become the de facto choice for every major operating system in the world. The AI PCs recently announced by Microsoft are a great example of this, where the most-used apps are now running natively on Windows on Arm. The ecosystem includes around 18 million software developers.
Developer support is important if we want to experience the societal changes AI can unleash from the tiniest devices at the edge to training and inference in the cloud. Developers need to be able to take the innovation they are doing with AI and have it run on the hardware in a power-optimized, highly executable, and predictable state.
To ensure this happens, Haas introduced KleidiAI, a new suite of AI compute libraries that make it easier to run their AI applications on its platform.
“If there’s anything we’ve learned over Arm’s 30-plus years, as great as the hardware is, if you don’t have something that developers can get access to, the hardware is not going to do you much good,” Haas said.
For example, developers work on their models in frameworks like PyTorch, Llama 3, or MediaPipe, KleidiAI enables them to go into the abstraction layer and take advantage of the underlying hardware feature for AI workloads for full-performance potential.
Haas shared videos of executives from Samsung Mobile, Meta, and Google, on how Arm and KleidiAI will enable them to accelerate AI innovation across its platforms on different markets.
Arm Compute Subsystems for Client
It needs to continue to deliver higher-performing and more power-efficient products. Chris Bergey, Arm SVP and GM for Client Line of Business took to the stage to talk about the recently announced Compute Subsystems (CSS) for client devices.
This is the first time that the company announced physical implementations in 3 nanometer nodes and got to market faster with greater confidence.
This enables chipmakers to focus on their differentiation around the platform and what Armv9 architecture can bring to their future products. When you combine this with KleidiAI developers have the tools required to take full advantage of these next-generation hardware technologies.
Haas closed by further reinforcing the most complete computing platforms on the planet. With innovations like CSS and KleidiAI, he expects more than 100 billion Arm devices will be ready by the end of 2025.
If you’re interested in checking out the full keynote, you can watch it here.
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