Arm might be planning on announced its very own processor as early as this year. A fresh rumor claims that the known chipmaker could be working on in-house chips, which might makes its debut with Meta as its first customer. So here’s everything we know so far.
Arm making new in-house chips
According to The Financial Times report, Arm is working on a CPU designed for data centers, but would carry customizability to fit the requirements of different customers. Since Arm is a fabless chipmaker, the company is looking to contract TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, to fabricate its new chips. These in-house processors could be unveiled as early as this summer, as per industry sources close to the matter.
This news also arrives a month after Softbank (Arm’s parent company), entered into a partnership with OpenAI to build up to $500 billion worth of AI infrastructure. This massive project would also involve Arm along with Microsoft and even Nvidia as key technology partners. Arm could be playing a massive role in this, and even have ties with AI powered personal devices being developed by John Ive (Apple’s former designer) and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
For those unaware, Arm’s designs are basically behind every smartphone in the market right now. It is also in most mobile devices and even power latest Apple Macs and Qualcomm powered Windows PCs. CPUs that use the ARM architecture basically offer great power efficiency while not compromising on performance that can even match Intel and AMD chipsets. This is a big reason for their increasing popularity in data farms that power AI applications.
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