High-Efficiency and High-Performance ML Inference Processor
Based on a new, class-leading architecture, the Ethos-N77 optimized design enables new features, enhances user experiences, and delivers innovative applications for a wide array of market segments, including mobile, IoT, embedded, automotive, and infrastructure. It provides a massive uplift in efficiency compared to CPUs, GPUs, and DSPs through efficient convolution, sparsity, and compression.
Delivers up to 4 TOP/s of performance (2048 8-Bit MACs), scaling to 100s of TOP/s in multicore deployments.
Achieving 5 TOPs/W through internally distributed SRAM, storing data close to the compute elements to save power and reduce DRAM access.
Up to 225% convolution performance uplift using Winograd on 3x3 kernels, delivering up to 90% MAC utilization.
Supports a wide range of existing ML operations and future innovations through firmware updates and compiler technology.
Mobile Computing
Consumers want a range of mobile devices, from smartphones to laptops to PCs, that feature immersive computing with powerful artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and ML capabilities. Arm offers a broad range of IP that lets developers, SiPs, and OEMs address these increasingly complex requirements.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are expanding and defining more applications than ever before, changing how we interact with devices and machines everywhere. Arm CPU processor IP is scalable and flexible enough to run any type of ML workload, today or in the future.
Automotive: ADAS Perception, In-Vehicle infotainment (IVI)
The automotive industry is currently looking at the technology innovation required to move from today’s prototype autonomous vehicles to deployable safe, self-driving solutions. Arm is working with key OEMs, Tier 1s, and the broader ecosystem to help simplify and accelerate the path to the real deployment of safe autonomous vehicles using NPU technology.
Discover how the Ethos-N77 NPU can create a better user experience for your products.
Ethos-N37
Optimized for the most cost- and battery-life sensitive designs, Ethos-N37 delivers premium AI experiences in entry phones, digital TVs, and other endpoint devices.
Ethos-N57
Optimized for the most cost- and power-sensitive designs, Ethos-N57 delivers premium AI experiences in mainstream phones and digital TVs.
Cortex-A Processors
The Cortex-A processor series powers more advanced user experiences and richer interfaces, and provides the high-performance computing needed for complex healthcare applications, such as genomic sequencing.
Mali Graphics Processors
Mali GPUs include both graphics and GPU compute technology to offer a diverse selection of scalable solutions for low-power, high-performance smartphones, tablets, and digital TVs.
Arm-based chips, device architectures, and technologies orchestrate the performance of everything that makes modern life possible — from smartphones to agricultural sensors and from medical instruments to servers.
Arm NN
Arm NN bridges the gap between existing NN frameworks and the underlying IP. It supports the efficient translation of existing neural network frameworks, such as TensorFlow and Caffe, allowing them to run efficiently – without modification – across Arm Cortex-A CPUs, and Arm Mali GPUs and the Ethos-N NPUs.
Arm Compute Library
This software library is a collection of optimized low-level functions for Arm Cortex-A CPUs and Arm Mali GPUs that target popular image processing, computer vision, and ML. It offers significant performance uplift over OSS alternatives and is available free of charge under a permissive MIT open source license.
Ethos-N77 Resources
- Product Brief: Compare Ethos-N Processor
- Ethos-N77 Product Brief
- Optimizing AI workloads with Ethos NPUs
- AI Platform Solution Brief
- Powering Machine Learning at the Edge
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