Gian Marco Iodice

Mobile AI Just Got Faster: What’s Coming for Developers on Arm

What if you could get a 6x performance boost for on-device AI with zero code changes? See how Arm's new SME2 instructions make it a reality for developers.

Mobile AI Just Got Faster: What’s Coming for Developers on Arm
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Exploring generative AI use cases on mobile devices

Generative AI on mobile enables powerful, local-first applications like group chat summarization and high-quality audio generation without an internet connection.

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Why you should run AI workloads on the Arm CPU

The Arm CPU offers scalability, security, and an "optimize once, deploy everywhere" model, making it ideal for high-performance, low-latency AI applications.

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Navigating the diverse mobile AI framework ecosystem

A wide range of open-source frameworks, each with unique strengths, are available for deploying AI models on Arm-powered mobile devices.

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How the KleidiAI library unifies AI performance

The KleidiAI library provides highly optimized, low-level routines that integrate directly into popular AI frameworks to ensure the best performance on Arm CPUs.

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A deep dive into the on-device AudioGen pipeline

The AudioGen pipeline runs locally by combining multiple models and processing steps, requiring data type flexibility like FP32 and FP16 for optimal quality.

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Building a private, fully on-device smart assistant

Generative AI enables smart speakers to run entirely locally, combining speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models for a private user experience.

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Introducing SME2 for next-generation AI acceleration

The Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2) for Armv9 CPUs uses the Matrix Outer Product Accumulate (MPA) instruction to dramatically accelerate matrix multiplication.

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Measuring performance gains with SME2 acceleration

SME2 delivers over six times better performance for key generative AI models like Gemma and Whisper, enabling real-time text summarization and audio generation.

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How Android developers can prepare for SME2

With SME2 support coming to Android, developers using AI frameworks with KleidiAI integration will automatically receive significant performance boosts without any code changes.

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