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Arm Ethos-U85

Hardware

by Arm Holdings

Neural processing unit designs licensed to chip makers for running models on edge and mobile devices.

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Arm licenses IP rather than selling parts, and publishes no price list. Ethos-U85 is in the Mainstream Package of Arm Flexible Access, whose Standard Tier membership is "$85K / year" ("$0 for qualifying startups"), with license fees "only due at the point of manufacture".

What it does

• IP licensing
• Model inference

Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 2 Sep 2026

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The "Arm Flexible Access Mainstream Package" chart on Arm's Flexible Access page lists Ethos-U85 under its Ethos neural processing units, and the page describes the Standard Tier as "Over 80 products in the Mainstream Package" with "Membership fee: $85K / year" and "Tape-out fee: Pay per product, at tape-out, for commercial designs". Flexible Access is a licensing programme that pays for design access across Arm's IP, not an offering Ethos-U85 is bundled into, and no price is published for this product's own licence, so how it is priced is not stated. The Ethos-U85 product page also offers contact with Arm for other licensing.

URL

Official documentation · 2 Sep 2026

Third-gen Ethos-U NPU, transformer-capable, 128–2048 MAC units, up to 4 TOPS at 1GHz.

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