ARM’s first AI chips will be part of its product portfolio starting in 2025, the Nikkei economic daily reported, citing internal company sources that detailed its plan. British designer creates a specific distribution which will have the first prototypes available next spring for series production to begin in the fall.

Artificial intelligence is a concept currently driving global technology, and no one wants to be left out of a movement that – even without a hands-on demonstration of all the benefits it promises – is clearly much more than just a fad. And it needs hardware, lots of hardwareboth in data centers, where neural networks learn and learn, through a simple smartphone, where the NPU is used in an increasing number of tasks, to PCs, which this year will use this phenomenon to increase sales.

ARM is the world’s largest designer of semiconductors for third-party use, and it was clear I wanted to get into hardware AI Sooner than later. And all this despite the fact that its CEO René Haas said a few months ago that the fear that people could lose control over artificial intelligence keeps him up at night. Although this “fear” remains a burning issue, the industry continues unchecked. We’ll see where we go, but for now, business is business.

ARM chips for AI

SoftBank owns more than 90% of ARM Holdings, and its CEO has big ambitions. Put in numbers, the Japanese group plans to invest a whopping $64,000 billion to transform the company into an AI powerhouse. The group intends to expand into data centers, robots and power generation as part of a rollout combining the latest technologies in artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics to stimulate innovation in various industries. The core of the project is ARM chips for AI.

SoftBank will bear the initial development costs until mass production of the chips begins, where they plan to spin off the division created for the project from ARM and incorporate it as an independent company. They also deal with large foundries like TSMC to guarantee production capacity.

Although not specifically stated, it is assumed The designs created will be made available to ARM customers in license mode as before with all your IPs. Recall that ARM Holding has become a giant in chip design and hundreds of manufacturers have access to them. Especially mobile phones, where it has almost 100% share of the world market, but also PCs, with an example in Apple’s work to power its new generation of Macs with ARM.