Gaonchips becomes the first Korean design house in Arm's Total Design for Physical AI programme

Korean chip design house Gaonchips said on Oct 15 that it has joined Arm Total Design for Physical AI, Arm's partner programme for jointly developing and validating full-stack hardware and software for robots and autonomous vehicles, and that it is the first Korean design solution partner to do so, The Elec reported; the company release itself was not found.

According to the report, Gaonchips, an Arm-approved design partner, will support Arm-based physical-AI chips from silicon to system, from turnkey design and physical implementation through to finished products, drawing on large AI chip work on Samsung Foundry's 2 nm process, automotive chip production and earlier 8 nm and 4 nm designs.

Vice President Woo Jung-ho said the company wants to cut customers' development risk and time to market. The move ties into a pattern MEKAWIRE has tracked this month, with DeepX launching its DX-M1M NPU module and Korea's physical-AI alliances pulling chip firms into robotics, as robot makers look for local silicon rather than relying only on NVIDIA Jetson modules.