On May 29, Arm Ltd, a British chip technology company owned by SoftBank, announced in its blog that it had launched a new chip technology for mobile devices.。Subsequently, Taiwan-based smartphone chipmaker MediaTek Inc said the technology will be included in its next-generation products and will help improve the performance of its next-generation smartphones.。

It is reported that MediaTek has long been an important supplier of low-end smartphone chips, has been promoting the supply of its high-end smartphone chip market, and seeks to make a breakthrough in the field of automotive intelligence.。Today, MediaTek also announced a partnership with Nvidia to provide a complete AI smart cockpit solution for software-defined vehicles.。Under the partnership, MediaTek will develop automotive SoCs that integrate NVIDIA GPU chips, and MediaTek's smart cockpit solutions will also run NVIDIA's DRIVE OS, DRIVE IX, CUDA and TensorRT software technologies.。

Arm, unlike other semiconductor companies, is not keen on manufacturing and selling chips to end users, but rather transfers the power of production to partners by transferring design solutions, and with this win-win relationship, the company has quickly become the creator of the global RISC microprocessor standard.。

At the Taipei International Computer Show (Computex) on April 18, the company unveiled the Immortalis-G720 for video image processing and artificial intelligence applications, as well as the Cortex-X4, which will be the core design of the mobile device brain.。Arm said that the performance of these two new designs is 15% higher than previous generations, and the power consumption of Cortex-X4 is reduced by 40% at the same frequency, which is very important for smartphones that require long-term battery life.。

Arm also unexpectedly revealed that it has been in TSMC "taped out" of the Cortex-X4, which means that the company has been off-line production of Cortex-X4 chips at the factory, and this is usually the workflow of chip designers that take into account chip manufacturing, and Arm's positioning of only selling chip blueprints does not match.。In response, Chris Bergey, general manager of Arm's customer business unit, said that this is just one step we sometimes take to help customers test new manufacturing technologies, and Arm is determined not to engage in chip sales.。

It is worth noting that last month, according to people familiar with the matter, Arm has formed a "solution engineering" team, as a chip technology team, responsible for the development of prototype chips for mobile devices, laptops and other electronic products.。In addition, the media is expected to ARM chip will be unveiled in the near future, but whether the final direct docking mobile phone manufacturers, is not sure。

A few days ago, it was also reported that SoftBank has begun secret preparations for Arm's listing in U.S. stocks, and has included Goldman Sachs, Xiaomo, Barclays and other major banks in the underwriting ranks, but the lead underwriter has not yet been determined, the rest of the matter is also in consultation.。It is reported that the IPO can raise up to $10 billion, is expected to become the world's largest IPO this year, the earliest in September to start the stock issue.。

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