From PC World: The architect of many modern smartphones and some PCs, Arm Ltd., just put on a hard hat and picked up a hammer and a nail.
Arm, whose intellectual property formed the blueprints of smartphones designed by Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung, said Tuesday afternoon that it has entered the chip market with help from Meta. However, its first effort will target the data center, rather than the PC or phone.
Arm’s first chip will be called the Arm AI CPU, designed for “AI data centers running agentic AI workloads” — most likely, powering Meta’s own AI efforts in the cloud. The chip, with 136 Arm Neoverse V3 cores per CPU, will be designed for 1U racks. It will offer twice the performance per rack as an x86 CPU, the company said.
“AI has fundamentally redefined how computing is built and deployed. Agentic computing is accelerating that change,” said Rene Haas, chief executive of Arm, in a statement. “Today marks the next phase of the Arm compute platform and a defining moment for our company.
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