Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices

Arm is aiming to infuse AI into connected devices and other low-power hardware with an addition to its Cortex-M line-up of microcontroller core designs. The Brit chip operation has revealed the Cortex-M52, hailed as its smallest and most cost-efficient processor with the Helium vector processing extensions to accelerate …

[heyrick]

"Arm said it is bringing support for AI into a unified tool chain to make coding apps simpler for the Cortex-M52"

Something proprietary, or something that plugs into the Arduino IDE (or similar)?

[elsergiovolador]

Brit?

The Brit chip operation

It's like calling Audi Q2L a Chinese operation just because it is being manufactured in Foshan.

[HuBo]

Any Heliums out there?

It would be nice to see some of these Helium-infused ARMs in the usual suspects' catalogs (Microchip/Atmel, NXP, STMicro) -- I've only seen Renessas' Cortex-M85 so far, and no Cortex-M55 with Ethos-U55 NPU announced more than 3 years ago ( https://www.theregister.com/2020/02/10/arm_cortex_m_ai_accelerator/ ). Cortex-M7 is very nice (especially NXP's 1 GHz i.MX RT1170) and seems okay on MLPerf's Tiny Inference benchmark ( https://mlcommons.org/benchmarks/inference-tiny/ ), but the M85, with 128-bit vectors, and those other new Helium chips, should shine even brighter there I think!

[teknopaul]

Yeah but can it run

Stable Diffusion

That's the only bit of software that would persuade me tobuy new hardware right now