ARM Launches New Chip Design for Automotive, Health and Robotics
- New Cortex R-52 will compete with Intel Yogitech designs
- First major design debut since Softbank’s $32 billion purchase
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ARM Holdings Plc, the U.K. company that designs the semiconductors found in most of the world’s smartphones, has introduced a chip engineered to move the company into new markets including self-driving cars and surgical robots.
ARM, acquired by Softbank Group Corp. for $32 billion in a deal that concluded earlier this month, on Tuesday debuted its Cortex R-52 processor design. The chip is targeted for use in devices where safety is critical such as automated cars and health-care devices. “You would want this anywhere there was a danger of loss of life or limb due to machine-human interaction,” John Ronco, ARM’s vice president of product marketing, said in an interview.