Arm Introduces Lumex AI Chips for Mobile without Internet

Arm Holdings announced the release of Lumex, a next-generation chip family that has been tuned for artificial intelligence to function on mobile devices like watches and smartphones without requiring internet connectivity.

The next generation of Arm mobile designs, known as Lumex, is available in four different varieties, from a version that optimizes the available computational power to a less potent but more energy-efficient variant that is intended for smart wearables like watches. On devices like high-end smartphones, the peak performance architecture seeks to execute software that leverages the power of massive AI models without requiring access to cloud computing.

"AI is becoming pretty fundamental to kind of what's happening, whether it's kind of real-time interactions or some killer use cases like artificial intelligence translation," said Chris Bergey, a senior vice president and general manager at Arm. "We're just seeing (AI) become kind of this expectation."

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The Lumex designs announced on Tuesday are part of the company's Compute Subsystems (CSS) business, which aims to offer handset makers and chip designers a more ready-made piece of technology that enables their speedy use in new products. The more complete designs Arm is now making for data centers and mobile phones are part of the company's longer-term plans to grow its smartphone and other revenue through a variety of means.

Additionally, Arm has stated that it intends to increase its investment in the investigation of producing its own chips and has employed a number of important personnel to do so. For so-called 3-nanometer production nodes, such as the one provided by TSMC, the Lumex designs are optimized. TSMC 3-nanometer technology is used in the iPhone chip series that Apple introduced on Tuesday.