Rene Haas, CEO, Arm
Rene Haas CEO, Arm
Last year, we released the first Arm Ecosystem Predictions and Perspectives report. As you might expect, the report was dominated by the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on how we live, work, and communicate.
Yet as the world begins to open up again, we’re looking ahead at what 2022 and beyond might bring and the trends shaping the industry.
One thing became clear to me last year; it's very difficult to predict the future, and that's coming from a relative position of strength, given our conversations with technology innovators range out 5-10 years. With this mind, we've taken a slightly different approach to the report for 2022: Focusing on our ecosystem's priorities, since we can interpret those for you with real clarity.
We surveyed more than 900 technologists in the Arm ecosystem, and respondents are innovating on countless fronts, from smart phones and watches to edge servers and HPC systems to robotics and autonomous vehicles. And when we look at responses from those who say Arm is a fundamental part of their work, we are able to see the full breadth of focus across the ecosystem.
Clearly, Arm is everywhere. Combine that with the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) across many applications, and Arm technology clearly is the future of AI.
Arm believes that 100 percent of digitally shared data will be securely processed at the endpoint, in the networks or cloud, and that is happening because of the pervasive and accelerating deployment of our technology, as well as our focus on specialized processing solutions: The flexibility to deploy CPUs, GPUs and NPUs, Arm Cortex-A-class, R- or M-class devices in a mix-and-match fashion to help developers customize their products. That freedom of design doesn’t really exist outside the Arm ecosystem.
• One-quarter of respondents are using Arm technology to build edge server / gateway solutions • 1 in 5 software developers are using Arm to develop ADAS car safety technology • 25% of hardware developers are using Arm to design health wearables
As part of this report, we’ve identified several trends. Of particular interest to me is how AI and machine learning (ML), more robust security, and the drive to push more compute to the edge and endpoints factor into the future as envisioned by the Arm ecosystem. At Arm, we’ve relentlessly innovated IP, tools, and ecosystem support to help drive some of these trends. This year, we introduced new features in the Armv9 architecture that laid out a path toward more robust device-level security with confidential compute and demonstrated how specialized processing can help teams customize their innovations, quickly and flexibly. Part of that relentless focus to make developers’ lives easier includes things such as PSA Certified, the standards-based security certification framework and organization, and SystemReady, the compliance certification program that ensures Arm-based servers, infrastructure edge, and embedded IoT systems are designed to specific requirements, enabling generic off-the-shelf operating systems to ‘just work.’
In this report, you’ll also find insight and analysis in these areas from our senior Arm leaders: Dipti Vachani, SVP and GM of the Automotive group, Mohamed Awad, SVP and GM of our Infrastructure group, Chris Bergey, whose Client business works with partners across the mobile computing realm, and Paul Williamson, SVP and GM of our IoT business.
I hope you enjoy reading the following pages.
