{"id":81472,"date":"2024-02-22T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/arm-says-software-is-becoming-the-driver-for-cars-after-inking-deal-with-nuro\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:20:46","slug":"arm-says-software-is-becoming-the-driver-for-cars-after-inking-deal-with-nuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/arm-says-software-is-becoming-the-driver-for-cars-after-inking-deal-with-nuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm says \u2018software is becoming the driver\u2019 for cars after inking deal with Nuro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After watching its share price almost double in a week, Arm has further tapped into the demand for AI<\/a> compute. The chip designer today announced a deal with Nuro, a US startup in the autonomous vehicle (AV) sector \u2014 a growing market for Arm<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The partnership aims to accelerate the commercialisation of self-driving cars. Arm will bring its famed semiconductor IP to Nuro\u2019s vehicles, starting with the startup\u2019s delivery robots.<\/p>\n

With zero occupants inside, these AVs can fully focus on external road dangers, which\u00a0makes a useful stepping stone to broader autonomy.<\/span> As small, fully electric\u00a0machines, they also need maximum efficiency \u2014<\/span><\/span>\u00a0a central selling point of\u00a0 Arm\u2019s designs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another attraction to Nuro is the breadth of Arm architectures. <\/span><\/p>\n

The British firm is<\/span> best known for powering most of the world\u2019s smartphones<\/a>, but its tech is also found in endless other applications, from smart cities to laptops. Arm estimates that 70% of the world\u2019s population uses products that depend on its IPs.<\/span><\/p>\n

That depth of experience is valuable to the complex systems required by AVs. Albert Meixner, Nuro\u2019s\u00a0 head of software, expects it to accelerate the commercial production of self-driving vehicles.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThis partnership gives us a chance to move away from prototype hardware to something that can meet a performance, safety, power, reliability, and cost point that\u2019s required to put this out at scale,\u201d Meixner<\/span> told TNW.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For Arm, the pact deepens a concerted push into the automotive segment.<\/p>\n

Arm\u2019s blossoming romance with AVs<\/h2>\n
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The Nuro R3 delivery robot, which is integrating Arm\u2019s IP. Credit: Nuro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the automotive sector transitions towards electrification and automation, the compute needs of cars are rapidly increasing. Comparisons\u00a0to \u201cdata centres on wheels\u201d are now commonplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Arm, this makes the automotive segment extremely attractive. Since 2020, the company has more than doubled its revenues from the sector, the <\/span>Financial Times reported<\/span><\/a> last year. That made it Arm\u2019s fastest-growing\u00a0unit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Day, Arm\u2019s director of autonomous vehicles, said the industry has reached an i<\/span>nflection point.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSoftware is becoming the driver \u2014 excuse the pun \u2014 for the next generation of vehicles,\u201d Day told TNW. \u201cThe software<\/a>-defined vehicle is becoming a reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At Nuro, that means applying Arm\u2019s IP to the startup\u2019s autonomy stack, as well as the foundations of its next generation of the Nuro Driver, the core component of the company\u2019s AVs. The startup is targeting level 4 autonomy<\/a>, which doesn\u2019t need a human driver under certain road conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

By working with Nuro, Arm will also get insight\u00a0into the broader needs of AVs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe see this as a really interesting growth area for Arm,\u201d Day said. <\/span>\u201cThere\u2019s a whole new set of high-performance, heterogeneous compute that needs to be built for the automotive world to enable the software-defined vehicle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After watching its share price almost double in a week, Arm has further tapped into the demand for AI compute. The chip designer today announced a deal with Nuro, a US startup in the autonomous vehicle (AV) sector \u2014 a growing market for Arm. The partnership aims to accelerate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":81473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2672,2668,410],"tags":[2671,2667,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}