ARM has a plan to dominate the self-driving car space, and it just took a key step to achieve it.

ARM steps on the gas pedal and creates an autonomous and intelligent car. The British company announced this week the launch a number of technologies for this type of casesincluding tools software and virtualization, as well as a new range Hardware created specifically for these needs.

Among the new features: trio of new kernels with the surname AE at the end of his name, which means automotive superior and is translated into Spanish as optimized for cars. Introduced by ARM in 2018 with the unveiling of the Cortex-A76AE, these acronyms are used to refer to projects focused on connected, intelligent or autonomous vehicles.

Three new cores for autonomous cars

The most ambitious of the three new cores is the ARM Neoverse V3AE. This is an option Neoverse V3 chip which the company introduced in early 2024 to meet server needs cloud And edge –a market in which ARM has an increasing weight–. This version of AE, ARM explains, allows those who implement it to have their own server computing power for any task related to artificial intelligence, autonomous driving or assisted driving.

The British company also presented Cortex-A720AE and Cortex-A520AE. They are based on the Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520, two well-known cores that we find in mobile phone chips such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The Cortex-A720AE offers slightly more performance, while the Cortex-A520AE offers less. power consumption.

On the other hand, ARM introduced Cortex-R82AE –real time processor– and Mali-C720AEa customizable Internet provider to process any image signal coming from cameras or sensors in the car.

ARM wants to play a key role in developing self-driving cars

All of these elements can be combined in various ways to create high-performance SoCs that meet the needs of automotive companies. It’s also important to clarify that ARM does not produce such processors. The company creates projects, and after the work is completed, other companies carry out the work. The dynamics are similar to those we see in mobile telephony. ARM develops Cortex cores, and then companies like Samsung or Qualcomm implement them into SoCs that finally hit the market.

Along with these three new cores ARM Announces Full Offering software and virtualization systems that facilitate the entire supply chain partners and, in addition, strives to accelerate the time to market for new technologies.

Brands that will use these ARM designs include Marvell, MediaTek, NVIDIA, NXP, Renesas, Telechips and Texas Instruments, the company explained in a statement.

Given the powerful transformation that the automotive industry is and will continue to undergo, It is not surprising that ARM is gaining momentum in this matter and is trying to become the partner of choice for all companies in the sector.. A goal that makes even more sense when you consider that the mobile phone market, the goose that has been laying the golden eggs for the last decade, has been barely growing – and even declining in some quarters – due to the high maturity the market has achieved.