Earlier at the Arm TechCon 2019 event held in San Jose, USA, Arm not only revealed that its global cumulative shipments have exceeded 1500 billion units, but also CEO Simon Segars reiterated thatPlans to resume listing before 2023, and announced that it will provide customized instruction set design for embedded device processors, and will also use the new Mbed operating system to accelerate the growth of IoT applications with partners. In addition, it announced that it will cooperate with manufacturers including General Motors, Toyota, DENSO, Continental, Bosch, NXP and NVIDIA to establish the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) to promote the development of future autonomous driving technology.
Providing customized instruction sets for embedded device processor designs means partners can rely on Arm to make customized modifications without paying additional licensing fees, thereby differentiating themselves in the market. Furthermore, because Arm provides customized design services, there are no software or instruction set compatibility issues. Furthermore, since these designs are based on the new Armv8-M instruction set architecture, they can utilize more new technology applications.
Prior to this, Arm had already provided its partners with semi-customized processor designs. For example, Qualcomm has already used this to create a number of semi-customized processor products, which has also gained considerable market support and can even launch new processors more efficiently each year and incorporate new technological applications.
However, the provision of customized instruction set design for embedded device processors may be in response to the increasing market attention paid to RISC-V open architecture processors in recent years, and even the EU unit plans to useRISC-V architectureDesign and buildVarious processor products, thereby enhancing Europe's competitiveness in the development of semiconductor applications.
Therefore, in order to maintain its own market advantage, Arm must continue to maintain more development flexibility to attract more partners to continue to adopt its design solutions and avoid a full shift to RISC-V architecture design and development.
In addition to announcing the availability of custom instruction set designs for embedded device processors, Arm also announced at the event that it will accelerate the growth of more IoT applications through the new Mbed operating system. Arm also maintains deep integration with partners including Analog Devices, Cypress, Maxim Integrated, Nuvoton, NXP, Renesas, Realtek, Samsung, Silicon Labs, and the u-blox Product Working Group to ensure the continued growth momentum of IoT applications.
In addition, the company has partnered with General Motors, Toyota, DENSO, Continental, Bosch, NXP, and NVIDIA to establish the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Association, and plans to further promote the development of future autonomous driving applications.
