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Posted by RealityVoid 3 hours ago

Arm AGI CPU(newsroom.arm.com)
129 points | 65 commentspage 2
RealityVoid 3 hours ago|
Arm apparently now sells their own CPU's.
torusle 1 hour ago||
ARM riding the "everything is AI" train.

So sad.

twostorytower 1 hour ago||
And the stock is down >2% today
rvz 2 hours ago||
Meta are heavily invested in building their own chips with ARM to reduce their reliance on Nvidia as everyone is going after their (Nvidia) data center revenues.

This is why Meta acquired a chip startup for this reason [0] months ago.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-buy-chip-startup-rivos...

jeffbee 1 hour ago||
Many of these words are unexplained. "Memory and I/O on the same die". Oh? What does this mean? All of the DRAM in the photo/render is still on sticks. Do they mean the memory controller? Or is there an embedded DRAM component?
ahoka 1 hour ago|
All processors have memory on the same die.
jeffbee 1 hour ago||
How much, what kind, and what is your source?

All mainstream server CPUs have a megabyte or two of SRAM on a core, of course.

DeathArrow 1 hour ago||
Now every product will have the AI buzzword in it's name, just like 25 years ago product names started with letter e, from electronic.

So we will see AI Toilet Paper launching in the next months.

nurettin 2 hours ago||
I was wondering who convinced ARM to manufacture hardware. Turns out it was Meta.
cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago||
Now if only they would go back to being "Acorn RISC Machines" and make a nice desktop home computer again...

One can dream.

wmf 1 hour ago||
DGX Spark is pretty nice. It could be cheaper if they removed the NIC though.
cmrdporcupine 43 minutes ago||
I have the ASUS variant. I like it well enough.

I see the NIC as a form of future proofing, but we'll see.

My Ryzen 9 mini-PC from 2 years ago outperforms this thing in raw CPU Though.

walterbell 2 hours ago|||
Nuvia/Qualcomm lawsuit and Softbank.
redwood 2 hours ago||
Fabless. Like AMD and Nvidia. So I would think about it more as branding and packaging than Manufacturing
anvuong 2 hours ago|||
Huh, many companies use TSMC, in fact, probably all of them use TSMC, including Intel, yet there are only a few who dominates in performance. There are much more in designing chips than what you just listed.
i_am_a_peasant 39 minutes ago||
Intel uses its own fabs for certain IP, tsmc for others yeah. As far as I've seen the latest greatest Panther Lake that stuff is made in intel's arizona fabs.
IshKebab 2 hours ago|||
There's a big difference between just providing IP and actually doing the physical design, manufacturing and packaging. You can't just send your RTL to TSMC and magically get packaged chips back.

I haven't ever ordered an ARM SoC but I also wouldn't be surprised if there were significant parts that they left up to integrators before - PLLs, pads, SRAM etc.

SilverElfin 2 hours ago||
Call this an “AGI CPU” just feels like the most out of touch, terrible marketing possible. Maybe this is unfair but it makes me think ARM as a whole is incompetent just because it is so tasteless.

> Arm has additionally partnered with Supermicro on a liquid-cooled 200kW design capable of housing 336 Arm AGI CPUs for over 45,000 cores.

Also just bad timing on trying to brag about a partnership with Supermicro, after a founder was just indicted on charges of smuggling Nvidia GPUs. Just bizarre to mention them at all.

vova_hn2 2 hours ago|
I found this article extremely frustrating to read. Maybe I lack some required prior knowledge and I am not the target audience for this.

> built on the Arm Neoverse platform

What the heck is "Arm Neoverse"? No explanation given, link leads to website in Chinese. Using Firefox translating tool doesn't help much:

> Arm Neoverse delivers the best performance from the cloud to the edge

What? This is just a pile of buzzwords, it doesn't mean anything.

The article doesn't seem to contain any information on how much it costs or any performance benchmarks to compare it with other CPUs. It's all just marketing slop, basically.

nicoburns 2 hours ago||
> The ARM Neoverse is a group of 64-bit ARM processor cores licensed by Arm Holdings. The cores are intended for datacenter, edge computing, and high-performance computing use. The group consists of ARM Neoverse V-Series, ARM Neoverse N-Series, and ARM Neoverse E-Series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Neoverse

snek_case 2 hours ago||
I feel like this is most products in the AI space lately. More marketing fuzz than substance. Hard to figure out what thing even does.