NVidia has pledged to retain ARM’s world leading research and development centres in the UK.
It sees the acquisition as creating a new power in artificial intelligence, which NVidia sees as “the most powerful technology force of our time.”
NVidia says it will create a world-class AI laboratory in Cambridge, at the Arm headquarters “A Hadron collider or Hubble telescope, if you like, for artificial intelligence.”
In a blog on its website NVidia expanded on its plans for ARM.
The centre in Cambridge will include:
- An Arm/NVidia-based supercomputer. Expected to be one of the most powerful AI supercomputers in the world, this system will combine state-of-the art Arm CPUs, NVIDIA’s most advanced GPU technology, and NVidia Mellanox DPUs, along with high-performance computing and AI software from NVidia and our many partners. For reference, the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku in Japan, is Arm-based, and NVidia’s own supercomputer Selene is the seventh most powerful system in the world.
- Research Fellowships and Partnerships. In this centre, NVidia will expand research partnerships within the U.K., with academia and industry to conduct research covering leading-edge work in healthcare, autonomous vehicles, robotics, data science and more. NVidia already has successful research partnerships with King’s College and Oxford.
- AI Training. NVidia’s education wing, the Deep Learning Institute, has trained more than 250,000 students on both fundamental and applied AI. NVidia will create an institute in Cambridge, and make our curriculum available throughout the U.K. This will provide both young people and mid-career workers with new AI skills, creating job opportunities and preparing the next generation of U.K. developers for AI leadership.
- Startup Accelerator. Much of the leading-edge work in AI is done by startups. Nvidia Inception, a startup accelerator program, has more than 6,000 members — with more than 400 based in the U.K. Nvidia will further its investment in this area by providing U.K. startups with access to the Arm supercomputer, connections to researchers from Nvidia and partners, technical training and marketing promotion to help them grow.
- Industry Collaboration. The NVidia AI research facility will be an open hub for industry collaboration, providing a uniquely powerful centre of excellence in Britain. NVidia’s industry partnerships include GSK, Oxford Nanopore and other leaders in their fields. From helping to fight COVID-19 to finding new energy sources, NVIdia is already working with industry across the U.K. today — but we can and will do more.
Jenson Huang, NVidia Founder and CEO commented, “We are joining arms with Arm to create the leading computing company for the age of AI. AI is the most powerful technology force of our time. Learning from data, AI supercomputers can write software no human can. Amazingly, AI software can perceive its environment, infer the best plan, and act intelligently. This new form of software will expand computing to every corner of the globe. Someday, trillions of computers running AI will create a new internet — the internet-of-things — thousands of times bigger than today’s internet-of-people.”
“Uniting NVidia’s AI computing with the vast reach of Arm’s CPU, we will engage the giant AI opportunity ahead and advance computing from the cloud, smartphones, PCs, self-driving cars, robotics, 5G, and IoT,” he added.