Data Center-CPU: ARM is planning its own chip for Meta for the first time 4 comments
ARM’s technology is used in over 300 billion chips, but has never been used in its own chip directly from ARM, only allowing its technology to third parties. This year is set to change with a chip developed for META, which is intended for a processor for use in the data center.
This reports the Financial Times, citing the plans of ARM and Meta, people familiar with. As a result, ARM was the first customer of its own chips to be able to move onshore and potentially demonstrate the new chip around summer. A processor is being developed that is to be used in the data center.
Arm cores are ubiquitous in AI servers
This would make weapons in direct competition with the likes of AMD and Intel with their x86 models. CPUs with weapon cores are represented in the data center and, more recently, mainly servers for training and inferring voice patterns for artificial intelligence, but these are licensed IPs that must implement third parties in their own chips. In the server environment, these are currently the current Neoverse V2 and V3 cores, which, for example, also rely on NVIDIA for their Grace CPU. The consumer counterpart forms cores such as cortex-x925, cortex-a725 and cortex-a520, which can be found in smartphone processors.
Manufacturing at TSMC
With these licenses you acquire access to the poorly developed microarchitecture of the respective core, develop the chip and hand it over to the completed one, but the licensee must do this. But that should change with the first arm chip. ARM is developing the chip itself and is expected to have it manufactured at TSMC, the Financial Times reports. Meta, in turn, would be clients of this first chip.
Arm wants to be at the center of the AI revolution
The development of own chips is part of a bigger plan of soft bank founder Masayoshi Son, ARM at the center of large infrastructure projects for artificial intelligence and therefore made more money. For this, the company behind ARM last month announced the 500 billion US Stargate project, in which Abu Dhabi’s MGX State Fund, Oracle, Microsoft and Nvidia are also involved. SoftBank is also expected to be close to completing its US$6.5 billion takeover of chip developer Ampere. Ampere already offers server chips with ARM cores and is financially supported by Oracle.
Jony Ive should also be interested
According to the Financial Times, chips developed by ARM are also expected to play a role in that of ex-Apple chief designer Jony Ive in the secret project for an “AI-powered personal device” – there is still a lack of details. Behind this project are well-known faces and companies in the AI industry with Ives Design Office LoveFrom, Openai CEO Sam Altman and Softbank.
Topics: Ampere Computing Arm Artificial Intelligence Meta Processor SoftBank Source: Financial Times
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