> ARM needs better GPU patents Remember also that "GPU" technology is not strictly about graphics. If you browse the marketing website, listen to the keynotes

> ARM needs better GPU patents Remember also that "GPU" technology is not strictly about graphics. If you browse the marketing website, listen to the keynotes, and generally learn of the NVIDIA vision of the future, it is something like this. There will be tons of little robots and similar endpoints ("edge computing"). Such a robot will be powered by a little ARM chip with an NVIDIA coprocessor for its on-board AI (computer vision, mobility, and the like). The robot will talk over 5G or one of its successors — the signal processing for the base station perhaps powered by something like NVIDIA AI-on-5G. This communication link will connect it with compute appliances in the nearest utility closet or server room, wherein NVIDIA simulation and route-planning software maintains a "digital twin" of the real world, and helps orchestrate their operations, while operators can render that model on their local machines. And all these devices will have computer-vision and route-planning models on board, models that are trained in the big machines in the datacenter. We have a few of these systems in computing today, but AI coprocessors will become very interesting as we move deeper into this world.