Optimistic about networking and mobile applications ARM seizes IoT business opportunities

Optimistic about the growth of smart terminals in emerging markets and the increasing demand for networking, Antonio Viana, Executive Vice President of ARM Business and Global Market Development, took "Where Intelligence Connects" as the main axis at the 2013 ARM Technology Forum, emphasizing that connectivity and mobility are completely rewriting technology With the appearance of interaction with society, ARM will continue to expand the industrial cooperation ecological chain with a low-power and efficient ARM architecture, promote innovation in the field of networking and mobile, and grasp the new business opportunities brought by the Internet of Things (IoT) and low-end smart phones .

Antonio Viana pointed out that the global population is expected to break through the 8 billion mark in 2020, when the huge demand for networking will bring business opportunities and challenges. ARM expects to enhance human life and close communication and intelligent interaction between people through technology. In order to achieve these goals, connectivity (connecTIvity) and mobility (mobility) will become the two main factors that promote innovation.

He quoted a data statement, "Global smartphone shipments are expected to exceed 1 billion units, and the installed base will also exceed 2 billion units. We can predict that in 2018, the amount of data transmission will increase by more than 12 times. . In particular, the maturity of related technologies like LTE has brought a large-scale increase in the amount of data. Here, as a result of mobility and the increase in the amount of data, more innovative applications will also result from this. "

Therefore, under the progress of the two major innovative technologies of connectivity and mobility, it not only brings advances in technology, but also brings unprecedented changes in human interaction, society, and business operations. For example, in the future, more and more home applications controlled by mobile phones will be seen, which will change the business model and strategic development of enterprises aiming at more mobile phone control.

Antonio Viana emphasized that in the process of the coordinated development of various new technologies, mobile-related technologies will gradually develop in the direction of the Internet of Things. According to the Internet of Things survey report conducted by ARM and the British Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) against 800 companies, the development of the Internet of Things has not only ended in the application of terminal devices or consumer electronic products, but also more than 75% in the world. Of business leaders said that they are developing IoT-related services, and most of them believe that companies that failed to introduce IoT technology early will be eliminated by the market.

In order to overcome important issues such as transportation, medical care, education and energy in the 21st century, which have been extended by the surge in population, Antonio Viana said that the single-handed operation model no longer meets the needs of new technological development. Only through mutual assistance with partners Only by cooperating and advancing with the times can the industrial ecosystem achieve the popularity of the Internet of Things. Antonio Viana emphasized that ARM's achievements come from the support of the industrial system. In the future, it will continue to be committed to assisting industry partners to overcome challenges and launch products and solutions that meet the needs of networking and mobility under the low-power and high-performance ARM architecture.

As networking and mobile technologies have matured, ARM has also made achievements in some areas. Wu Xiong'ang, president of ARM's Greater China region, took energy metering and smart grid and other energy management fields as examples, saying that the current market in China mainly uses technology based on the ARM architecture. He expects that by the end of this year, shipments of ARM-based core chips will exceed 1 billion in China, and the entire Greater China region will also reach 2 billion, which is a 50-fold increase over the past five years.

Wu Xiong'ang said that the ARM architecture continues to expand into various fields, bringing innovative applications and breakthroughs. For example, China's Tianhe Supercomputer uses the ARM architecture; companies such as TSMC, MediaTek and Rockchip do not only develop products based on the ARM architecture, but also Its technology has brought progress. He emphasized that through various disruptive innovations, applications based on the ARM architecture will play a more critical role in the field of mobile and Internet of Things in the next 3-5 years.

In response to the development of the Taiwan market, Lu Hongxiang, general manager of ARM Taiwan, said that from the rapid growth of partners such as TSMC, MediaTek and M-Star, it is not difficult to see that the ARM architecture has rapidly spread in the Taiwan market. He also emphasized that the total number of authorized ARM Cortex-M series manufacturers in Taiwan is not less than Cortex-A series users; at the same time, not only for business partners, M series products have also penetrated into the campus and academic research For example, in this year's participation in the ARM Design Contest design competition, three groups of students won awards for Cortex-M technology combined with digital technology applications.

In addition, Noel Hurley, vice president of marketing strategy for the ARM processor division, reiterated that ARM will expand the front line in the Internet of Things field by expanding the authorization and acquisition of companies such as Sensinode Oy this year, so that the software and hardware environment around the CPU and GPU More mature and perfect, and then optimize the system single chip performance and power consumption. At the same time, ARM provides an integrated way to enable the system to achieve effective, high-speed and low-power integration, plus software development tools such as mbed, so that manufacturers can more accurately grasp the development needs of system single-chip and peripheral systems.

2013 was a year of succession for ARM. Antonio Viana said that ARM used to work in the field of mobile computing, and has continuously developed better solutions to achieve a balance between performance and power saving, providing a better user experience. This year, ARM has extended its reach to emerging areas such as the Internet of Things and mid-range smartphones on the existing basis. It is expected that ARM will be used in mobile computing, embedded markets, enterprise applications, smart homes and Internet of Things markets in 2013 and in the future There is significant growth.