What's Next

New ideas for a changing world.

The Road Ahead

Exploring potential ideas for the next decade of computing.

Morello. Developed in conjunction with Google, Microsoft, and the UK’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, Morello is an in-silicon technology that isolates attacks to keep them from spreading. A demonstrator system is nearing completion. If the program continues to achieve its milestones, Morello will likely feed into Armv9 toward the middle of the decade.

M0N0. An R&D project in conjunction with DARPA, M0N0 is an experimental processor that can perform ML tasks like voice recognition on a few milliwatts. M0N0 is targeted at applications like acoustic traffic analysis, better perimeter security, and environmental monitoring.

Triffid. An early-stage R&D project, Triffid processors run on energy harvested from ambient sources like radio frequencies. Triffid can be used to insert inexpensive intelligence into everyday items, such as shoes or food containers, to boost recycling or lower food chain losses.

Trishul. An R&D project being conducted with GlobalFoundries, Trishul links massive numbers of independent processors (CPUs, DPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and other devices) with a high-speed mesh. The end result will be a “chip” for building lower cost, lower power supercomputers or inserting supercomputer capabilities into edge computers or cars.

A Better Future

We are more than a company. We are people in 85 countries with an obligation to build for a better tomorrow. Some of our efforts include:

Decarbonized Compute. We are developing technologies to reduce the carbon generated by computing, as well as collaborating with partners to use computing to decarbonize buildings, manufacturing, and other industries. Arm is committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Ethical AI. Building Ethical AI is one example of how Arm is working to bring the technology industry together to create an ethical framework to ensure that AI and ML are developed and deployed in a fair, responsible manner.

Arm Education. To close the skills gap in STEM, we've developed a wide range of free university education programs, online courses, and tutorials for students, teachers, and even private companies on IoT, system design, graphics, and other subjects.

Sustainable Development. Arm is a leading partner in 2030 Vision, an organization created to harness the power of the technologies behind the fourth industrial revolution (AI, IoT, 5G) to meet the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development¹⁰ set forth by the UN General Assembly in 2015.

Bridging the Digital Divide: Powered by Arm Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A7 processors, the Jangala Big Box provides low-cost, energy-efficient connectivity for up to 100 users and up to 2,500 with repeaters. Over 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet.

References

1. https://exponentialroadmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Exponential-Roadmap-1.5-September-19-2019.pdf

2. https://cybersecurityventures.com/hackerpocalypse-cybercrime-report-2016/

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ransomware-cybersecurity-infrastructure.html

4. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/

5. https://www.statista.com/statistics/973815/worldwide-digital-voice-assistant-in-use/

6. https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet-usage-statistics

7. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/customers/

8. A Pervasive Platform graphic: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024.

9. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/microsoft-and-arm-partner-to-deliver-an-end-to-end-intelligent/ba-p/1751373

10. https://www.2030vision.com/global-goals