Arm plans to develop its own in-house chip

Arm, the chip designer known for powering nearly every smartphone and PCs, is set to unveil its first-ever processor this year, with Meta as its launch partner.

According to a report from The Financial Times, this new chip will be a server CPU for data centers, and it could also be customized for different clients.

Arm plans to outsource the manufacturing to a third-party factory, like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), with the chip potentially debuting as soon as this year.

Arm’s designs are already widely used in smartphones, Apple Macs, and Qualcomm-powered Windows PCs, thanks to their energy efficiency.

This makes them a great choice for data centers running AI workloads. The launch of its own chip will put Arm in direct competition with companies like NVIDIA, which already makes its own server CPUs based on Arm’s technology.

Arm has never made its own chips before; instead, it licenses its designs to companies like Apple and Qualcomm, who then customize and manufacture them through third-party foundry such as TSMC.

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