According to foreign media reports, the ARM chip design company owned by SoftBank Group released a chip technology that tried to implant AI functions to detect human voice or other sensor data streams.

Yesterday, ARM released the Cortex M55 architecture chip and the nerve processing unit of the ETHOS-U55 architecture.The chip using this architecture is expected to be provided in 2021, which will realize the special types of mathematical operations required by artificial intelligence software. The artificial intelligence software can detect vibration or identify keywords from users' words.

The chip technology used by ARM is very low in terms of power consumption, which makes the corresponding devices, such as sensors, only require a small battery to work continuously for several years, and can only connect to the network when running.

It is understood that reducing network connections can help protect privacy. The ARM chip technology uses local processing data methods to send necessary data to remote servers.

ARM mainly provides chip architecture technology to mobile chip suppliers such as Qualcomm and mobile terminal manufacturers such as Qualcomm.In recent years, the company has been seeking diversification of the customer base and has begun to transfer some businesses to markets such as autonomous vehicles.ARM's business has also extended to the Internet of Things and other fields, involving agricultural irrigation systems for transportation or network transformers and automation equipment.