Subj : Arm is investing in Raspberry Pi to make AI accessible to the mas To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Nov 02 2023 15:00:06 Arm is investing in Raspberry Pi to make AI accessible to the masses Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:51:29 +0000 Description: The chip giant is building on its partnership with the Raspberry Pi foundation, already powering its low-cost microcomputers. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Arm Holdings now has a minority stake in Cambridge, UKs favourite microcomputing son, The Raspberry Pi foundation. Honestly, theres not a great deal to say here - the press release is still hot out of the oven (do you get it? Because its - oh, nevermind), but, since Raspberry Pi s have always been powered by Arm chips, perhaps this was always going to happen. Whats clear from the initial announcement, though, is that its in aid of futureproofing Arms status in (sigh) the artificial intelligence ( AI ) and Internet of Things ( IoT ) cottage industries. Generative tAsty pI With the rapid growth of edge and endpoint AI applications, said Paul Williamson, Arms GM and SVP of IoT, platforms like those from Raspberry Pi, built on Arm, are critical to driving the adoption of high-performance IoT devices globally by enabling developers to innovate faster and more easily. Using Arm technology as the foundation of our current and future products offers us access to the compute performance, energy efficiency and extensive software ecosystem we need, as we continue to remove barriers to entry for everyone, from students and enthusiasts, to professional developers deploying commercial IoT systems at scale. I want an Arms length from IoT We (the royal we, meaning this jaded tech writer) are wary of this move to make the tired and miserable strategy of put a chip in it available to the masses. Its not news that, once a developer tires of or goes bankrupt thanks to its commercial IoT system, whatever youve bought will end up being drastically less useful or reduced to a paperweight, as the only good social media account (it has an NSFW name, so we cant give it the SEO credit - which Im sure pleases its operator to no end) will attest. Will increasingly affordable IoT-facilitating tech mean less bankrupt startups? Probably. Will it also mean a startling increase in e-waste, and even direr prospects for data privacy ? Definitely. More from TechRadar Pro The Raspberry Pi 5 has ruined my day Look it up, Bookworm - the Raspberry Pi 5 just got its first OS(es) Vodafone builds a 5G network on a Raspberry Pi ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/arm-is-investing-in-raspberry-pi-to-make-ai-acce ssible-to-the-masses --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .