Japanese chip designer ARM has unveiled a serious upgrade to its multi-core processor designs, with the launch of DynamIQ, a new way of combining up to 8 processor cores to best suit an application. Pitching it at AI and automotive developers, the new system is set to comprise a big chunk of the next 100bn chips that ARM is hoping to ship. Calling it a monumental shift in multi-core microarchitecture, ARM’s DynamIQ is essentially an evolution of its big.Little designs, which allowed a multi-core chip to be built with combinations of powerful and low-power cores, to better manage power consumption – with the big cores only spooling up when heavy-lifting was needed, and the low-power cores managing the ongoing activity.…