Arm's Zena CSS Shaves a Year Off Auto Chip Development
- U.K.-Based Arm launched its Zena Compute Subsystem to accelerate AI-powered automotive chip development by offering a pre-integrated platform in 2025.
- The move responds to growing automotive demands for AI-defined vehicles, consolidating software and hardware to reduce development complexity and time.
- Zena CSS supports 16 Armv9 Cortex-A720AE cores with built-in safety features and aligns with SOAFEE standards to enable seamless cloud-to-edge software development.
- Arm claims Zena CSS cuts chip development effort by 20% and shortens vehicle development cycles by up to 12 months, with Mercedes-Benz’s Magnus Östberg noting it reduces complexity industry-wide.
- The platform aims to help automakers launch intelligent, AI-enabled vehicles faster while supporting broad adoption by leading OEMs and silicon providers already testing Zena CSS.
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Arm's Zena CSS shaves a year off auto chip development
Arm has introduced Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS), a pre-integrated, safety-certified automotive compute platform designed to cut chip development timelines by up to 12 months. Announced on June 4, 2025, the launch marks a pivotal move by the semiconductor IP leader into the software-defined vehicle (SDV) market, providing automakers with a unified architecture to fast-track AI capabilities across future car models.
Siemens announces PAVE360 support for new Arm Zena Compute Subsystems
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that it is expanding its longstanding relationship with Arm and adding support for the newly launched Arm® Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS) in its PAVE360 software, designed for software-defined vehicles (SDV). Zena CSS, Arm’s first-generation CSS for automotive, is a pre-integrated and validated compute subsystem optimized for performance, power and area and designed to accelerate development for…
Siemens’ PAVE360 to support Arm Zena Compute Subsystems
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that it is expanding its longstanding relationship with Arm and adding support for the newly launched Arm Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS) in its PAVE360 software, designed for software-defined vehicles (SDV). Zena CSS, Arm’s first-generation CSS for automotive, is a pre-integrated and validated compute subsystem optimized for performance, power and area and designed to accelerate development for the AI…
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