It recently became known that the parent corporation SoftBank is hatching the idea of creating its own chip to accelerate artificial intelligence systems, so the latest publication on the pages of Globes is not at all surprising in its content. The source reports that a group of Arm specialists in Israel is busy developing GPUs for the video game segment.
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At the local Arm research center, as Globes explains, about a hundred software and hardware specialists are working on the creation of a gaming graphics processor. However, the initial focus of the product on the gaming hardware segment does not mean that in the future these developments cannot be applied in the field of computing acceleration for artificial intelligence systems.
Israeli Arm specialists already have experience in optimizing the design of graphics cores for third-party customers, so this could be applied when creating your own GPU. Arm engineers in Israel also have experience creating computational accelerators for NeuReality, so it can be applied to similar developments in-house. Arm accelerators could compete with Nvidia’s solutions and be sold in significant quantities to large cloud service providers who are interested in reducing their dependence on a dominant vendor that can impose any price on them.