Arm has incorporated code consolidation, a common database, and architectural compatibility into its early architectural designs, allowing different partners to combine various architectural designs according to their own product needs to create new computing models that meet different market demands, and therefore does not believe that future architecturally-designed products will necessarily include specific components, including NPUs.

In response to the launch of the Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55 NPU architectures, Arm's Director of Application Engineering in Taiwan said that he hopes to see the NPUs become a standard component of the processor.

According to Arm Taiwan's President Zeng Zhiguang, after telecom companies started implementing commercial 5G network services last year, the global region has also officially entered the 5G network application phase, which means that different computing modes can be carried out through wireless network connection modes with larger data transmission bandwidths and low-latency performance, and at the same time, allowing for the realization of AI applications on the IoT device side.

From Samsung's 6.7 million shipments of 5G-enabled cell phones last year, it is expected that this year will see the expansion of more 5G-enabled cell phones, tablets, and even laptop devices, and many Chinese branded cell phones have also confirmed that they will be fully implementing 5G-enabled cell phone products from the start of this year, which will result in a significant increase in the penetration of 5G-enabled cell phone use this year, and it is expected that this will lead to the popularization and application of 5G-enabled network services more quickly.

This is the first time I've seen a 5G mobile phone.

Thus, the Internet of Things (IoT), which has been discussed since the 3G and 4G network era, is expected to integrate greater data transmission bandwidth and low latency performance in the upcoming 5G network era, which will change the original computing model, and even integrate AI on the device side to accelerate the computing effect.

David Hsu said that from the perspective of Arm's *** products and services, the main focus is to meet customer demand, and also to enable developers to write applications in a simpler way with unified and compatible coding, so that more applications can be brought to market faster.

Taking the Cortex-M55, Ethos-U55NPU architecture design as an example, the latter can actually work with Cortex-M33, Cortex-M7, or Cortex-M4, and even computing applications without the need for DSP components to assist in computing, allowing the Ethos-U55NPU to work with the extremely low power consumption of the Cortex-M0 to create products.

As computing devices, from cell phones to IoT devices, are starting to be designed with NPUs, does this mean that NPUs will be considered an essential part of Arm's architectural design in the future?

As far as Danyong Xu's explanation is concerned, it depends on how the partners work with Arm's architectural design products, and Arm's position is to assist the partners in realizing the needs of all kinds of computing applications.

For example, Qualm's flagship processors in recent years have adopted the "PrimeCore" design, which is part of the multi-core architecture, but also focuses on vector computing acceleration during the computing process, and is formally similar to the NPU design used to accelerate vector computing in the processor, which is used by other vendors.

This is also due to the fact that Arm has incorporated coding harmonization, common databases, and architectural compatibility into the early stages of the architecture design, which allows different partners to combine various architectural designs according to their own product needs, and thus create new computing models that can satisfy the needs of different markets, and therefore does not assume that future architecturally-designed products will necessarily include a specific set of components.