A chip for machine learning

Roberto Saracco June 12, 2017 Blog 300 Views

The newly announced Cortex-A75 has been designed with Machine learning application in mind. Credit: ARM

ARM has announced the Cortex-A75 processor, an evolution of its Cortex CPU line. Interestingly, in their announcement ARM is making explicit reference to machine learning applications. It is the first time, as far as I remember, that the increasing performances of a chip are emphasised targeting AI and Machine Learning.

This shows, in my opinion, how important is AI becoming in terms of variety of applications.

Just two days ago, on June 10th, an interesting article on the business section of the Daily Herald was debating on the adoption of AI by Amazon, Applem Google, Tesla and Uber, stating that AI is a crucial technology for these company. It even went as far as saying that AI will prove for Apple to be as important in the next decade as the iPhone was in the previous one, and missing the target of mastering and leading in AI might ruin the business of these companies.

That is quite a statement and quite an indication of the role that AI is starting to play. Something that was not foreseeable just 10 years ago.