Arm this week announced the availability of new top-end CPU and GPU designs ready made for system-on-chips for laptops, smartphones, and similar personal electronics. These cores are expected to power next-gen Android phones, at least, by late 2024.
The X925 is intended to be the main beefy application core or cores in a big.Little CPU cluster of up to 14 cores total in future devices. How that cluster is configured is up to the system-on-chip designer that licenses this tech from Arm. The other CPU cores in the cluster can be the new mid-range Cortex-A725 and the smaller, efficient A520. The X925 can have up to a 3MB private L2 cache, while the A725 can go to 1MB L2.
Now Arm has taken that shake-and-bake approach to personal or client devices, and will offer complete physical implementations of the above new Cortex CPU and Immortalis GPU core designs under the banner of. These designs were made with the help of TSMC and Samsung, specifically targeting those fabs' 3nm process nodes.
We understand it's not necessary or required for Arm licensees to use the compute subsystem; they can license and integrate the cores as they've normally done but they'll have to do all the tuning and optimization themselves, and find a way to overcome the 3nm scaling issues without hampering core performance.
If it's possible to use a framework that auto-detects available acceleration and uses it, great, but generally: Inference is staying on the CPU. Of course, first-party apps, such as Google's own mobile software, are expected to make use of known built-in acceleration, such as Google's Tensor-branded NPUs in its Pixel range of phones.
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