(Reuters) – SoftBank Group (TYO:) Arm Holdings (NASDAQ plans to develop artificial intelligence chips, seeking to launch the first products in 2025, Asia reported on Sunday.
UK-based Arm will create an ai chip division and aim to build a prototype by spring 2025, the report added. Mass production will be carried out by contract manufacturers and is expected to begin in fall 2025, Nikkei Asia said.
Arm will pay the initial development costs, which can run into hundreds of billions of yen, and SoftBank will also contribute, according to the report.
Once a mass production system is established, the ai chip business could be spun off and placed under SoftBank, the paper said, adding that SoftBank is already in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp and others about manufacturing, seeking to secure capacity. of production.
Arm, SoftBank and TSMC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The UK chip designer, which licenses its chip designs and raises funding through royalties, has been expanding into the data center market, where operators are looking to build their own chips to power new ai models and reduce its dependence on dominant supplier Nvidia (NASDAQ:). .
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