Meta and Arm team up to build a new class of data center chips
The AI boom was powered by companies training models using Nvidia GPUs.
But now as the field enters the age of inference, the humble CPU may be reclaiming its place in the spotlight.
Today Meta announced a partnership with Arm Holdings to build a “new class of data center silicon.”
The companies are teaming up to design chips that are custom-made for inference, the computing task that actually processes queries — vital work that companies are looking to optimize as they try to fit more and more computing power in their massive data centers.
The first chip from the partnership is the Arm AGI CPU, which is described as a data center CPU designed for Meta’s family of apps.
Meta’s head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, said in a press release:
“We worked alongside Arm to develop the Arm AGI CPU to deploy an efficient compute platform that significantly improves our data center performance density and supports a multi-generation roadmap for our evolving AI systems.”
The companies are teaming up to design chips that are custom-made for inference, the computing task that actually processes queries — vital work that companies are looking to optimize as they try to fit more and more computing power in their massive data centers.
The first chip from the partnership is the Arm AGI CPU, which is described as a data center CPU designed for Meta’s family of apps.
Meta’s head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, said in a press release:
“We worked alongside Arm to develop the Arm AGI CPU to deploy an efficient compute platform that significantly improves our data center performance density and supports a multi-generation roadmap for our evolving AI systems.”
