New Arm Automotive Enhancements (AE) processors that support functional safety will bring advanced Armv9 architecture technology and server-level performance to AI-powered use cases
Arm’s future computing subsystem for automotive applications will further reduce development time, cost, and maximum flexibility for high-performance automotive systems
For the first time in the Arm ecosystem, software development can be started on a virtual prototype solution before the physical chip is ready, reducing the development cycle by up to two years

CI534V04 Arm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARM, “Arm”) today joined ecosystem partners to introduce the latest Arm Automotive Enhancements (AE) processors and virtual platforms that enable the automotive industry to apply them at the start of development and help reduce development cycles by up to two years.

Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager of Automotive at Arm, said: “The automotive market is undergoing an unprecedented transformation, with the need for more automation, the pursuit of more advanced user experiences and the trend towards electrification driving explosive growth in software and artificial intelligence (AI). As automotive electronics systems become more complex, we need to fundamentally rethink our product development processes to accelerate product delivery.”

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The new generation of AE processors introduces Armv9 architecture technology and server-grade performance for automotive applications for the first time

Arm is bringing Arm®v9 architecture technology to automotive applications for the first time, enabling the industry to benefit from the AI, security and virtualization capabilities of the next generation Arm architecture. To meet the growing performance demands of today’s vehicles, Arm has leveraged its leadership in the infrastructure market to bring server-grade Neoverse™ technology to automotive applications and introduced A new Cortex-A family of products based on the Armv9 architecture for scalability. The full range of products includes:
CI534V04 Arm Neoverse V3AE: Arm brings Neoverse technology to automotive applications for the first time, bringing server-grade performance to AI-accelerated autonomous driving and Advanced Driver assistance systems (ADAS) workloads
Arm’s first Cortex-A processors based on the Armv9 architecture tailored for automotive applications:

o Arm Cortex-A720AE: brings industry-leading sustained performance and SoC design flexibility to a wide range of software-defined automotive (SDV) applications

o Arm Cortex-A520AE: delivers leading energy efficiency and functional safety features that are fully scalable for a variety of automotive use cases
Arm Cortex-R82AE: Arm’s highest performing functional safety real-time processor to date, bringing 64-bit computing to real-time processors for the first time
Arm Mali™-C720AE: A configurable image signal processor (ISP) optimized for the most demanding computer vision and human vision use cases
A range of configurable system IP that enables the Arm chip ecosystem to deliver scalable, high-performance automotive SOCs

These technologies are currently being used by industry leaders such as Marvell, MediaTek, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, Renesas Electronics, Telechips, Texas Instruments, and others.