Chip tech firm Arm plans to slash development time for connected devices

SAN FRANCISCO: Arm Ltd, the British chip technology firm in the midst of a $54 billion takeover by Nvidia Corp, on Monday announced tools aimed at cutting the development time of so-called “internet of things” connected devices by some 40%.

For decades, the process of developing most computing devices saw chips and hardware first completed, then prototypes passed on to software developers to write code for the chips.