Arm has revealed a lot of things over at COMPUTEX 2023 but there’s one thing that shouldn’t be skimped over and that’s CEO Rene Haas’s view and opinion in modern era computing.
He started the keynote with a simple title – The Golden Age of Computing. In this day and age, the need for computing has grown beyond anyone has ever imagined with the phenomenon being accelerated by COVID-19, resulting in a demand in the market for smart applications and devices skyrocketing.
From another perspective, it seems like “everything is a computer now”. But to truly achieve that, absolute power efficiency and sustainability with finite resources is a challenge the world must face.
With inflation and ever-increasing difficulty in engineering System-on-Chip (SoC) at the front, Arm is ready to provide solutions, or at least help, for these complex problems by shifting focus toward compute sub-systems.
Through this, Arm technologies-equipped solutions can be configured to meet specific requirements and be validated for relevant process nodes for better performance at a quicker rate.
And to be expected, Haas gave the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip a dedicated corner and as an example for the current Arm-based compute sub-system ecosystem (and no doubt one of the best) with 72 Arm Neoverse V2 cores delivering 10 times performance leap in AI demanding tasks while improving the performance-per-watt ratio.
The effort to realize the goal of AI “benefiting the world” is further accentuated by the various digital companions surrounding our lives that influence how and what we do in a day such as Google Pixel 7’s live caption and virtual assistant or Amazon Echo for voice assistant in an individual context and even intelligent traffic monitoring in Korea and the autonomous monitoring of bees by smart farms, are all examples of how AI is already transforming the world.
He also did not forget about the software developers and the associated community in creating the “actual brains” of these powerful algorithms and applications that made harnessing similar powerful hardware a reality.
He concluded his keynote with a clear message which is everything is not a computer but building them is harder as time goes on yet Arm has the strength and skills to overcome them.
