Arm's latest micro controller Cortex-M85 to improve artificial intelligence operations

Arm Ltd, the British chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group Corp, on Tuesday unveiled its latest micro controller design and two new systems to help reduce development time of so-called "internet of things" of connected devices. The new products come as SoftBank looks to publicly list Arm after Nvidia Corp's deal to buy it collapsed following regulatory objections.

The Cortex-M85 micro controller will help improve artificial intelligence operations such as voice recognition on devices including smart home products and drones, said Mohamed Awad, vice president of internet of things and embedded at Arm. The M85 is 20 percent faster than the previous M55 chip for machine learning applications, the company said.

Arm supplies the underlying blueprints for chips that chipmakers or electronics makers can tweak and take to foundries to manufacture physical chips. Arm is increasingly providing blueprints not just for single chips but sets of chips, or systems, that can work together, said Awad.