ARM has R&D interest in neural network cores

By Peter Clarke, EETimes Europe
March 01, 2016

Intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has a research interest in machine learning and neural networks but is not yet prepared to say whether it can be turned into commercial business.ARM is the global leader in the licensing and supply of hardware in the form of IP. The company had about a 46 percent share of the global market with $1.2 billion worth in business in 2014, according to market research company Gartner. ARM's 25 years of existence have seen it expand from the supply of 32bit CPU cores with the addition of GPUs, video processors and crypto-acceleration processors. Expanding ARM's processor domain is something the company is always looking at, James McNiven, general manager of ARM's CPU group, told EE Times Europe during the Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg. - See more at: http://www.analog-eetimes.com/news/arm-has-rd-interest-neural-network-cores#sthash.7NZa9CrH.dpuf

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