By Max A. Cherney

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Arm Holdings said on Tuesday it was launching its next-generation set of chip designs called Lumex that it has optimized for artificial intelligence to run on mobile devices such as smartphones and watches without accessing the internet.

Called Lumex, the new generation of Arm mobile designs come in four types, ranging from less powerful but more energy efficient ones designed for watches and other smart wearable devices to a version designed to maximize the computing horsepower available.

The peak performance design aims to run software that harnesses the power of large AI models without accessing cloud computing on devices such as high-end smartphones.

“AI is becoming pretty fundamental to kind of what’s happening, whether it’s kind of real-

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