Arm’s first-ever CPU will be connected to Meta’s AI data centers later this year

After decades of licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm The first slide revealed It produces on its own, and is the first customer. It’s called the Arm AGI CPU, and it’s another chip designed for inference, or powering cloud processing for AI tools like AI agents that can keep churning out more and more tasks to run at once. The first company to use it is Meta, which has done so He reportedly struggled To launch its own artificial intelligence chips.

dead He says he is the lead partner and co-developerand plans to work on “multiple generations” of CPUs for data centers, for use with hardware from other vendors such as Nvidia and AMD. Arm customers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Google, Marvell, Nvidia, Samsung and others included congratulatory messages with the announcement. However, Qualcomm said it had achieved a “complete victory” over Arm With the court ruling last fall In their case regarding the terms of the licensing agreements, he was not one of them.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, nor were the number of chips Meta plans to use from Arm, currently owned by Softbank.

According to Arm, its new chip runs on the Neoverse platform used by AWS Graviton, Nvidia Vera, Microsoft and other AI chips, with up to 136 cores per CPU and 64 CPU cores per air-cooled server rack. It says the AGI CPU can get twice the performance per watt compared to traditional x86 CPUs while reducing memory bottlenecks, while taking advantage of long-term design efficiency benefits.

Other customers queuing up for an Arm chip include Cerebras, Cloudflare, F5, OpenAI, Positron, Rebellions, SAP, and SK Telecom. Mohamed Awad, president of Arm Cloud AI, told CNBC that its goal is to be an option for companies that can’t afford to manufacture their own in-house processor.