Generative AI has emerged like a comet. Since then, the demand for higher computing power and flexibility has arisen to process the massive amount of data generated by billions of devices and to drive more optimized solutions.

To that end, Arm is expanding its ecosystem by launching Arm Total Design, a leading group of industry leaders working together to accelerate and simplify the development of Neoverse CSS-based systems.

Arm recently announced nine new companies joining Arm Total Design, bringing the total to more than 20 partners across key areas of expertise.

Following Gaonchips and Coasia, Korean companies such as Aegic Land and Samsung Electronics announced their official joining on the 21st.

Aegisland and India's HCL have joined forces in design services, and Aegisland provides solutions specializing in ASIC design and manufacturing across a wide range of industries.

Additionally, Samsung, a semiconductor foundry, has newly entered the Arm total design ecosystem. Samsung Foundry, which recently succeeded in developing a 2nm process and securing its first customer order, is focusing on strengthening its cooperation with Arm and taking the throne of the next-generation foundry.

In addition, new participants include Ceva in the complementary IP sector, ProteanTecs in the advanced analysis sector, and Siemens EDA in the EDA sector, and semiconductor companies Jaguar Micro, Novatek, and RealTek have joined.

The reason why the market and industry are showing so much interest and response to Neoverse CSS is because they expect it to bring about a major change in the way Arm provides solutions to infrastructure.

Optimized for power, performance, area, and system-level functionality, Neoverse CSS is designed to accelerate time to market, reduce developer costs, and free up engineering resources.

Additionally, Arm Total Design provides Arm support and training to develop technologies and capabilities related to advanced infrastructure design or to help other companies grow their ASIC design service businesses.

For example, design services firm Faraday Technology announced that it has partnered with Arm and Intel to develop a cutting-edge 64-core SoC using Intel’s 18A technology targeting hyperscale data centers, the network edge, and 5G deployments.

Arm Total The strong interest in design is also driving the creation of an ecosystem around chiplets, where members and other companies can collaborate on initiatives such as the AMBA CHI chip-to-chip interconnect protocol.

This collaboration promotes industry-wide alignment on the underlying interfaces and system architectures that enable innovation in multi-die SoC designs (chiplets).

Arm presented a case study of Socionext's multi-core CPU chiplet, which is being developed on TSMC 2nm and is adopting Neoverse CSS technology and targeting server CPUs, data center AI edge servers, and 5/6G infrastructure.

Arm emphasizes that 'Total Design is a new innovation approach that supports Arm's partners to grow and scale by developing more tailored and optimized solutions for a variety of applications and markets.'

“By joining Arm Total Design, we have become a partner that enhances value through continuous innovation,” said Jongmin Lee, CEO of Aegic Land. “We have gained more opportunities to continue pursuing our vision of providing the best semiconductor solutions in the global market.”

“We are excited to further solidify our long-standing relationship with Arm,” said Jeong-Bong Jeong, SVP and head of Foundry Business Development at Samsung Electronics. “This will expand the benefits for Arm Neoverse CSS customers on Samsung’s latest technologies, from FinFET, such as SF4X and SF2 process nodes, to GAA.”