“The new compute requirements of the market are increasingly focused on efficiency and time-to-market.”

Arm held its annual technology conference, 'Arm Tech Symposia 2024', on the 1st at the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Seoul in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

The Arm Tech Symposia received great attention from domestic developers and engineers, reaching over 2,600 pre-registrants, and over 1,100 visitors attended the opening ceremony and keynote speech alone.

In the keynote speech that day, James McNive, Vice President of Arm Client Business, presented on the topic of “Building an AI Computing Platform for the Future.” As the market enters the AI era and new changes and requirements for computing platforms increase, Vice President James emphasized, “Arm needs a computing platform where the hardware-software ecosystem is tightly connected.”

As AI convergence accelerates across industries, the semiconductor market is also seeing increasing demand for customized solution chips to reflect the individual and diverse needs of businesses. Vice President James said that the demand for heterogeneous integration in AI is increasing, and that “Arm provides compute platform flexibility, and this is the core of Arm.”

Arm is responding to these market demands with its compute subsystem (CSS). It is expanding from Arm Neoverse CSS to client and automotive CSS. In addition, it emphasized support for the SW ecosystem, reiterating the importance of the ecosystem in the AI era.
“Software and hardware ecosystems are the most important factors in accelerating collaboration,” said Hwang Sun-wook, President of Arm Korea. “This year’s Arm Tech Symposia has more SW sessions than ever before.” Many companies providing AI solutions also participated in the exhibition booth, which seems to reflect the recent trend of blurring the boundaries between HW and SW and increasing importance of SW.

In addition, CEO Myung-Hyeon Cho of SEMIFIVE was invited as a panelist to the talk session and had a conversation, and in the Arm x Partner panel discussion on the topic of 'New Strategies and Opportunities in the AI Era,' CEO Jang-Kyu Lee of Telechips and CTO Jin-Wook Oh of Rebellion each took the stage to talk about their vision for AI advancement and the development trends of their respective Arm-based chip solutions.

In the partner keynote, AD Technology CEO Park Jun-gyu gave a presentation on HPC/AI, chiplets, etc., and technology tracks in the fields of △mobile △IoT △automotive △infrastructure were held throughout the afternoon.

Arm Tech Symposia 2024 will be held in five cities in four countries, including Seoul. Arm's technology conferences will also be held in Tokyo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei, providing a venue for industry professionals from each country to share and exchange new technologies.

“Arm has been integrating CPUs, NPUs, and GPUs for 10 years, and we want to support solutions that allow developers to focus on the applications they are developing without worrying about the hardware,” said Vice President James McNeave.
Meanwhile, Arm Total Design has released a new update to celebrate its first anniversary. Arm Total Design brings together capabilities from design to foundry manufacturing and has grown rapidly with participation from around 30 companies, with Alcor Micro, Egis, PUF Security and Semifive joining the ecosystem.

Through the ecosystem, Arm, Samsung Foundry, AD Technologies, and Rebellion are collaborating to bring to market AI CPU chiplet platforms targeting cloud, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI/ML training and inference workloads.