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235. Arm’s Vince Jesaitis on How AI Is Moving from the Cloud to Your Pocket

The Next Byte Podcast · 9 Dec 2025 · 46m

What this episode covers

Vince Jesaitis, Head of Global Government Affairs at Arm, explains how AI is shifting from cloud-based inference to local edge processing on devices like smartphones, earbuds, and cars. He details Arm's strategy of providing efficient CPU building blocks that enable high performance-per-watt, addressing energy and water constraints in data centers while enhancing user privacy and security. Jesaitis also discusses the critical role of government relations, including workforce development initiatives, the US Chips Act, and navigating divergent global regulations like the EU AI Act and GDPR.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Arm, TSMC, Intel Foundry Services, Global Foundries, NVIDIA, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Anthropic, NIST, SCSP
Products
Meta Glasses, Chat GPT, Microsoft 365
Also
Matter, EU AI Act, GDPR, US Chips Act

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