A new Arm software standardisation effort will help IoT leaders reduce deployment overhead across their connected edge devices.
Currently, 22 million software developers are building applications on Arm’s architecture. However, emerging workloads are placing rising demands on high performance and power-efficient compute.
Solving the associated hardware and software challenges requires broad and open collaboration across a diverse group of companies, rather than isolated innovation. To meet this moment, Linaro is introducing CoreCollective, a new industry consortium backed by Arm.
Reducing deployment overhead for connected edge devices
Through CoreCollective, Linaro will maintain a free consortium where the Arm ecosystem can collaborate to tackle shared technical challenges and drive standardisation. In parallel, Linaro is transitioning into a fully commercial services provider, working with companies to build high-performing and compliant open source powered products on Arm.
This dual approach provides a way to reduce engineering duplication. When custom connected edge configurations consume a high percent of deployment time, adopting shared standards cuts overhead.
Open forums like CoreCollective help to reduce fragmentation and accelerate standardisation across the Arm ecosystem for edge IoT deployments. This enables companies to focus their innovation where it matters most and benefit from shared progress.
Li Gong, CEO of Linaro, said: “As the ecosystem expands, we must scale our impact. CoreCollective with Arm’s backing removes the financial barrier to entry, making collaboration more inclusive, free, and open to anyone to join and participate.
“By running CoreCollective alongside Linaro’s commercial services, we can support more partners in the Arm ecosystem, be it through industry-wide cooperation or tailored, one-to-one service agreements.”
Cross-industry collaboration across the Arm ecosystem
Consortiums rely entirely on vendor adoption. At launch, CoreCollective has industry-wide support from leaders. Members aside from Arm and Linaro include AMD, Ampere, Canonical, CIX Technology, Fujitsu, Google, Graphcore, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Samsung, and SUSE.
These diverse industry voices will make the ecosystem stronger and speed the path from software development to deployment across Arm-based platforms.
CoreCollective brings existing and future open-source efforts into one transparent and inclusive framework. This strengthens every layer of the stack, from the Linux kernel to firmware to frameworks, all working seamlessly on the Arm architecture.
Mark Hambleton, SVP Software at Arm, commented: “New workloads – including AI – are pushing performance, efficiency, and security needs to new highs. To continue to scale demands new levels of ecosystem collaboration.
“CoreCollective is set up to enable us to come together to solve challenges in an open model, with a shared vision to help developers innovate faster on Arm as we build the next era of AI and compute.”
Delivering value for Arm-based edge IoT deployments
Working groups will be established as priorities are determined by members. Focus areas include Android, the data centre, confidential compute, edge compute, Linux fundamentals, virtualisation, and Windows on Arm. They aim to deliver standardised tooling and integration workstreams that strengthen the software ecosystem.
A strong software foundation enables developers to build once and deploy anywhere across a wide range of Arm-based technologies.
Trusted Firmware provides one example of the benefits of collaborating on solving common needs as an ecosystem. Operated by Linaro and led by Arm, it is an open reference implementation of Arm specifications for quick and easy porting to modern chips and platforms.
Joining CoreCollective is free and open to any company interested in collaborating with others to help developers accelerate the building, testing, and deployment of edge IoT workloads on Arm. Implementing these shared standards requires upfront planning around continuous integration pipelines, but it yields a long-term reduction in maintenance overhead.
Technology leaders can review the tooling released by these working groups to ensure future infrastructure compatibility and protect their return on investment.
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