Arm Drops Its First Data Center CPU — And It's Gunning for x86
Arm's new AGI CPU brings up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores and claims more than 2x rack performance over x86 rivals.
Arm just entered the data center chip game with its own silicon. The company unveiled the AGI CPU — its first production chip and first self-designed data center processor.
The specs are aggressive. The AGI CPU supports up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores and delivers 6GB/s of memory bandwidth per core. Arm claims the chip offers more than double the performance per rack compared with x86-based systems.
This is a significant shift. Arm has long licensed its architecture to other chipmakers, but the AGI CPU marks the company stepping up as a direct competitor in the server space. That puts it squarely against x86 incumbents Intel and AMD on their home turf.
With cloud providers already embracing Arm-based chips from the likes of AWS and Ampere, Arm selling its own silicon raises the stakes considerably.