Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI data centers later this year

After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it's producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it's another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud processing for AI tools like AI agents that can continue to spawn more and more tasks to run at once. The first company in line to use it is Meta, which has reportedly struggled to launch its own AI chips.
Meta says it's both the lead partner and co-developer, and plans to work on "multiple generations" of the data center CPUs, for use along with hardware from other vendors like Nvidia and AMD. Arm cus ...