For a company that started 2022 by watching its pending acquisition by Nvidia fall apart, Arm has not spent any time looking back at what might have been. The firm has made numerous announcements in the last several months that appear aimed at proving its CEO’s pledge that the company has a “limitless future.”
The latest news came out of last week’s Arm Developer Summit, where the company announced that AWS, Equinix, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and Tencent are offering developers free access to new compute instances based on Arm Neoverse processor cores.
That announcement builds on the earlier launch of the Works on Arm initiative to broaden support for open-source projects across the software stack, an effort which now includes more than 100 such projects that help developers execute better build times and run extensive test suites including better regression testing and bug resolution, as well as performance benchmarking and optimizations.
“We’re providing the foundation for a better overall developer experience and making it easier for developers to put the Arm architecture to work for them,” according to a blog post by Mohamed Awad, SVP and GM, Infrastructure Line of Business.
He further explained that Works on Arm free developer access also is being offered through a partnership with miniNodes that supports hosted access to IoT and edge platforms, like Jetson Nano and Raspberry Pi, which support the development of edge native software and use cases.
The Works on Arm update was not the only news out of the Arm Dev Summit. The company also said its Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge (SOAFEE) project to help create the software-defined automotive vehicle of the future has drawn 50 member companies since launching in September 2021. The project is due to offer up the second release of its reference implementation by the end of this year.
These announcements follow the unveiling less than two months ago of the second version of the Neoverse architecture, a IoT partnership involving Arm and Corellium that was announced last month, and Arm’s announcement of its Immortalis GPU last June, among other announcements. Arm also lately has been trading jabs in a legal battle with Qualcomm over alleged changes in its licensing of intellectual property.