Arm and Nvidia spot a squirrel

Breathless reporting makes news of Nvidia's and Arm's collaboration on Xavier sound like earth shattering news.  Nvidia and Arm recently announced that they would be working together to make Nvidia’s Deep learning Accelerator (NVDLA) accessible to programmers using Arm’s Trillium platform. Project Trillium was announced by Arm in February this year as a way for developers to get direct access from their applications to Arm’s machine learning IP offerings. The announcement made it clear that these include the inference acceleration and other compute libraries available for the CPU and the GPU as well as Arm’s existing object detection engine and it’s