Arm has officially launched its first production-ready silicon, the Arm AGI CPU, co-developed with Meta and targeting agentic AI workloads in data centers. The new chip is designed to provide flexibility and optionality for customers, offering a native alternative to x86 architectures. With up to 136 cores per CPU, it delivers leading performance per core, SoC, blade, and rack.
The Arm AGI CPU features high-density support for air-cooled deployments with up to 8,160 cores per rack and liquid-cooled systems delivering 45,000+ cores per rack. The chip’s TDP is 300W, with a dedicated core per program thread enabling deterministic performance under sustained load.
Arm CEO Rene Haas highlighted the company’s shift towards selling silicon for the first time, as opposed to just licensing IP. This move marks a new era for Arm, with the potential to bring in significant revenue growth, estimated to be 10 times that of current sales.
The launch partners include Meta, Cerebras, Cloudflare, F5, OpenAI, Positron, Rebellions, SAP, and SK Telecom, who are working together to deploy the Arm AGI CPU in various environments. The chip is expected to enable massive compute power in limited space, supporting AI-optimized data centers and large gigawatt-scale AI deployments.
Arm’s CEO also presented a roadmap for future silicon CPUs, indicating that follow-on products are committed to parallel development with the Arm Neoverse CSS product roadmap. Synopsys has announced support for the design of Arm’s CPU with solutions across its full-stack design portfolio.
Source: https://www.eetimes.com/arm-launches-first-silicon-cpu-targets-data-center-agentic-ai-workloads