Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI datacenters later this year | The Verge
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Arm is launching its first in-house chip, the AGI CPU, which will be used by Meta in its AI datacenters later this year.
AINewsTechArm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI datacenters later this yearThe Arm AGI CPU can have up to 136 cores per CPU, claiming it has double the performance per watt of x86 chips.The Arm AGI CPU can have up to 136 cores per CPU, claiming it has double the performance per watt of x86 chips.by Richard LawlerMar 24, 2026, 8:43 PM UTCLinkShareGiftImage: ArmPart OfChip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacysee all updates Richard Lawler is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget.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 datacenter CPUs, for use along with hardware from other vendors like Nvidia and AMD. Arm customers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Google, Marvell, Nvidia, Samsung, and others included congratulatory notes with the announcement. However, Qualcomm, which said it had achieved “complete victory” over...
