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Nvidia confirms $40B purchase of Arm, bringing together two chip giants (in case some missed this), and, Chip designer Arm on Sept 29th announced the launch of a new set of solutions for autonomous systems for both automotive and industrial use cases. These include the Arm Cortex-A78AE high-performance CPU,
the Mali-G78AE GPU and Arm Mali-C71AE image signal processor.

What makes all three of these chips stand out is that they have built-in safety features. "Safety," in this context, means that the chips feature additional capabilities that ensure that every calculation is essentially double-checked.

Traditionally, Arm has offered two modes for its CPU. In "split mode," all cores work independently and only go offline every now and then for quick sanity checks. This works well for applications with low or no safety requirements as the cores can run at close to their maximum performance.