Arm is accelerating efforts to tie smartphones, robots and data centres into a single computing platform. At a Sept. 7 media briefing, it unveiled an AI computing portfolio that includes CSS for Mobile 2, Arm Total Design for Physical AI and the Neoverse CSS-N4 for data centres. Arm said agentic AI is driving higher CPU loads. It also outlined performance gains in its C2 CPU cluster and Mali G2 GPUs, and gave projections for physical AI and data centre adoption.

Google has begun testing a low-cost data centre built from retired Pixel smartphones, aiming to cut costs and electronic waste by turning discarded devices into computing resources. Researchers stripped phones to mainboards and replaced Android with a Linux-based environment to run orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. Tests showed clusters of dozens of phones could support applications used by students. The team is also pursuing a 2,000-phone facility designed to support about 100 classes.