[Computex 2024] Arm To Enable 100B+ Arm Devices By 2025: CEO

On the opening day of Computex 2024 in Taipei, Arm CEO Rene Haas highlighted the company’s ambition to enable over 100 billion devices ready for AI from cloud to edge by 2025.

Rene Haas: Arm Is Crucial For Energy-Efficient AI

Haas addressed a critical issue: the world’s energy capacity to meet AI’s increasing compute demands. While AI technology advances rapidly, better processors for AI also lead to higher energy consumption. Arm’s energy-efficient CPUs, designed originally for battery-powered devices, are seeing growing adoption by leading cloud service providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft due to their power savings and ability to drive AI innovation.

Of course, the chipmaker’s reputation for power efficiency is well-known in this industry, thanks to advancements made in the smartphone SoCs (and it dates back to the original Apple Newton around 3 decades ago). According to Haas, the unique strength lies in its software ecosystem, which supports every major operating system globally. This ecosystem, boasting 18 million developers, makes Arm the preferred choice for designing AI applications.

Haas introduced Kleidi AI, a suite of AI compute libraries designed to simplify running AI applications on Arm hardware. “If there’s anything we’ve learned over Arm’s 30-plus years, as great as the hardware is, if you don’t have something that developers can get access to, the hardware is not going to do you much good,” Haas emphasized. Kleidi AI helps developers working in frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Llama 3, and MediaPipe optimize their models by leveraging Arm’s hardware features for maximum performance.

Chris Bergey, SVP & GM, Client Line of Business also briefly touched on the hardware side of things, which is the Compute Subsystems (CSS) for Client devices – the CSS is the first 3nm-based product from the fabless chipmaker, which promises significant improvements over SoCs released last year.

Pokdepinion: If AI needs to advance, the energy problem must be solved first.