Arm reveals its latest server chips for data centers, edge, HPC and more
Arm says Neoverse V1 is its widest architecture yet
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Armhas announced a completely new chip architecture as it aims to continue its progress into the data center and high-performance computing (HPC) space.
Dubbed the Neoverse V1,Armclaims the new chip will outpace its currentserver spacecontender, the Neoverse N1, offering twice the floating-point performance as well as a four-fold increase in machine learning performance.
Arm first introduced the Neoverse N1 back in early 2019 in the form ofAmazon’s Graviton2 and Ampere’s Altra server processors. As perAnandTech, the Graviton2 became thedominant hardware deploymentinAmazon’s AWSadditions in 2020, picking up the majority of market share being lost byIntel.
Talking toTechCrunch, Chris Bergey, SVP and GM of Arm’s Infrastructure Line of Business, shared that while the new Neoverse V1 wasn’t specifically built for the HPC market, it was definitely a target market.
“The V1 is about how much performance can we bring — and that was the goal,” shared Bergey, noting that the V1 is Arm’s widest architecture to date.
Server performance
The current Neoverse V1 platform isn’t based on the new Armv9 architecture, but Bergey shares that the next generation of the chip will be.
Alongside the V1, Arm also announced the Neoverse N2, which it pitches as the next-generation general compute platform that is meant for a wide variety of use cases, ranging fromhyperscale cloudsto SmartNICs and edge devices.
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The neoverse N2 is also notable for being the first chip that’s based on the new Armv9 architecture.
Bergey pointed out that with the N2 the objective was to get the most performance per watt. He illustrates this by sharing that in-house testing revealed that the Nginx web server showed a 1.3 times performance increase as compared to the Neoverse N1.
ViaTechCrunch
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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