Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference in an AI data center. The UK-based company developed the chip using its Arm Neoverse family of CPU IP cores and through a partnership with Meta. Meta is also the chip’s first customer of the Arm AGI CPU, which is designed to work harmoniously with the tech company’s training and inference accelerator. Arm also counts OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare, among others, as launch partners. Arm’s transition to making its own silicon has been anticipated for some time. The company…
