NVDA - Arm's first new chip architecture in a decade focuses on security and AI

Last year, Nvidia (NVDA) agreed to acquire SoftBank's ([[SFTBF]],[[SFTBY]]) Arm chip unit for $40B. While that deal crawls through the regulatory hurdles, Arm is rolling out its first new chip architecture in a decade.Armv9 architecture was designed to address the demands for high security and artificial intelligence processing.The architecture includes the new Arm Confidential Compute architecture, a security feature that places applications in a hardware-protected area of memory that's accessible but not fully controlled by the operating system. If an app became infected with a virus, it wouldn't spread to the rest of the system.The first-gen Armv9-based processors will include Arm Memory Tagging, which allows developers to lock strings of data using a "tag." The data can then only be accessed with the correct key that's held by the code that calls data from memory. The setup aims to cut off memory corruption as a hacking tool.Scalable Vector Extension 2 allows

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Arm's first new chip architecture in a decade focuses on security and AI