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Malaysia taps ARM for $250m chip boost
ARM has signed a deal with the government in Malaysia reported to be worth $250m to boost chip design.
www.eenewseurope.com, Mar. 05, 2025 –
The deal will see the ARM train up 10,000 engineers on the Compute Subsystem (CSS) technologies and ARM Flexible Access programme over the next ten years to build a chip design environment in Malaysia.
The CSS is a key element of the deal as it provides CPU cores pre-integrated with optimised cache memory and other blocks such as the Ethos AI accelerator and the Immortalis GPU family. This significantly reduces the amount of work required to develop complex chips.
Current CSS platforms use the Neoverse N3 and V3 high end cores for datacetnre chips and chiplets as well as 5G basestations, and is planning CSS platforms for the following cores, codenamed Adonis and Dionysys. ARM has also developed a CSS client platform for the fifth generation Cortex-X925 alongside the Immortalis G925 GPU core and Cortex A725 and A520 cores that is aimed at smartphones.
There are also five pre-integrated platforms with aimed at chips for the Internet of Things, although this is called Corstone rather than the CSS mentioned in the deal. Corstone runs from the 1000 with the Cortex-A53, A35 or A32 application cores through the 300 family with the M85 microcontroller core down to 101 with the Cortex-M3 microcontroller core.
However as reported buy Reuters, the deal includes seven chip subsystems, which would seem to indicate Corstone would also be involved.
At the same time the Flexible Access delivers up-front, no-cost or low-cost access to a wide range of ARM IP, tools and training.
“The ARM partnership with the Malaysian government will provide a range of innovation opportunities for the semiconductor industry in the age of AI, from the development of more advanced AI-optimized silicon products to nurturing new skills and talent in the region. Through utilizing Arm’s technology expertise, Malaysia is building a brand-new, highly innovative AI chip ecosystem that features the Arm compute platform at its heart,” said Will Abbey, executive vice president and Chief Commercial Officer at ARM (above).
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