ARM made a massive announcement at its ARM Everywhere keynote: according to a new blog post, the firm will sell its own ‘AGI CPU’ for the first time.
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With agentic AI workloads, CPU has started to become the next bottleneck for hyperscalers, which is why we have seen x86 solutions from Intel/AMD and ARM-based chips from NVIDIA gaining massive adoption among customers. In light of this, ARM has decided to capitalize on the hype by introducing its first-ever chip, called the ARM AGI CPU, marking a shift from an IP provider to an end-to-end silicon manufacturer. According to ARM’s CEO, Rene Haas, this move is targeted at fulfilling enterprise demand driven by agentic AI workloads.
Today marks the next phase of the Arm compute platform and a defining moment for our company. With the expansion into delivering production silicon with our Arm AGI CPU, we are giving partners more choices all built on Arm’s foundation of high-performance, power-efficient computing, to support agentic AI infrastructure at global scale.
Diving into the specifics of the AGI CPU, we are looking at up to 136 Arm Neoverse V3 cores per CPU, offering 6GB/s memory bandwidth per core. The processor has 2 MB of L2 cache per core and runs at up to 3.7 GHz. As far as I/O specifications are concerned, you are looking at 96x PCIe Gen 6 lanes, along with CXL 3.0 memory expansion, allowing the processor to support