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Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

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Comments (24)

  • forinti
    Arm came from Acorn and Acorn did make the first ARM CPUs for their computers, so it's not really the first time they do this.
  • daneel_w
    The Acorn Archimedes came with Acorn branded CPUs (the "ARM250" IIRC) already in the late 80s. I can't recall what company made the chips for ARM at that time, but in the later Archimedes models it was VLSI.
  • 3eb7988a1663
    After Amazon, Google, and Apple all have had successes with in house ARM, I had naively assumed Meta would do the same. Given the speeds with which they have been developed, it must not be "that hard" to spin up a chip. You could have easily framed it as a long-term plan - custom chips for the Occlus.
  • ChrisArchitect
  • drob518
    This is going to be a strategic challenge for ARM unless they are going to focus on chips that nobody else wants to make. And given the AI focus, that doesn’t seem to be the case. I would think that the RISC-V folks would be salivating at the prospect of flipping some existing ARM licensees to RISC-V.
  • kaladin-jasnah
    How does this fit with Meta's decision to acquire Rivos?
  • mrbluecoat
    "in-house" is misleading> Like nearly all fabless AI chipmakers, Arm currently manufactures its CPU at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ’s fabrication plants.