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Industry
Arm to sell chips directly, shifting from IP licenser to semiconductor supplier
Arm will release its first mass-produced silicon chip in 34 years, shifting from supplying IP licences to designing chips and earning revenue directly. The company unveiled the Arm AGI CPU for agentic AI data centre infrastructure, based on Arm Neoverse V3 and offering up to 136 cores per CPU. Arm said agentic AI will sharply increase CPU core demand. Meta co-developed the chip and plans to deploy it with its MTIA accelerators. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix highlighted memory and packaging cooperation.
AI & Enterprise
Meta aims to become AI infrastructure giant without cloud business
Meta is increasing spending in the AI infrastructure race even though it does not sell computing services to outside companies. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of a new organisation, Meta Compute, and pledged to secure tens of gigawatts of computing power this decade and hundreds of gigawatts longer term. The unit will oversee infrastructure, chip design, power procurement and supply chains. Some see a strategic shift, while others warn of profitability risks. Meta has already spent more than $70 billion and plans further investment exceeding $600 billion over two years.
AI & Enterprise
Meta to build its own hyperscale AI infrastructure, sets up dedicated unit
Meta is setting up a new Meta Compute unit to expand its AI infrastructure, SiliconANGLE reported on Jan. 12. The company plans to build data centres that will consume tens of gigawatts of power. The unit will be led by Santosh Janardhan, head of global infrastructure, and Daniel Gross, a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said infrastructure expansion could be a strategic advantage.