This seems bad, doesn’t it? I already know that there has been friction between arm and their customers over higher licensing fees since the IPO just trying to put this in context.
Agreed. The ARM AGI CPU supports a newer version of the vectorized instructions and has matrix math extensions that the AmpereOne M doesn’t. Also has almost twice the memory bandwidth. One paper at least, the AGI CPU seems like a better choice for AI workloads. Ampere is really pushing the AI workload use cases for the AmpereOne M, so this really makes their lives a lot harder.
Not sure how to feel about this. Does this mean ARM is slowly moving from just licensing IP to actually competing with companies building on top of it?
I think the only ARM licensee going for the hyperscaler CPU market is Ampere. Amazon and Microsoft make CPUs for themselves and Nvidia’s are aimed exclusively at AI workloads driving their GPUs.
It really is a choice for Arm to use their 2023 based mobile X4 cores instead of their current C1 Ultras for this. Hopefully they step up quickly
This seems bad, doesn’t it? I already know that there has been friction between arm and their customers over higher licensing fees since the IPO just trying to put this in context.
I wonder what the people at Ampere are thinking right now
Agreed. The ARM AGI CPU supports a newer version of the vectorized instructions and has matrix math extensions that the AmpereOne M doesn’t. Also has almost twice the memory bandwidth. One paper at least, the AGI CPU seems like a better choice for AI workloads. Ampere is really pushing the AI workload use cases for the AmpereOne M, so this really makes their lives a lot harder.
Wasn’t Ampere just bought by Softbank?
Yes, but they function as sister companies right now rather than one company.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506251 (18 minutes older, 6 comments)
This is my condensed version for the SBCwiki documentation focused on the key facts without all the unnecessary marketing around it
This is substantially more useful than the marketing fluff in the press release. Probably would have made sense to post this in that thread though
Not sure how to feel about this. Does this mean ARM is slowly moving from just licensing IP to actually competing with companies building on top of it?
Yeah seems like competing with your customers is a bad idea.
I think the only ARM licensee going for the hyperscaler CPU market is Ampere. Amazon and Microsoft make CPUs for themselves and Nvidia’s are aimed exclusively at AI workloads driving their GPUs.
ARM naming a chip AGI is either the most confident product launch in history or the best marketing we have seen in years. Probably both.
Or for certain people, it makes them cringe a little whenever they see it..
It’s so deliberately misleading.
I can only imagine that their boardroom minutes included heated exchanges between their legal and marketing teams.
They certainly are optimistic
Waiting for ARM-AGI-2
They actually said it’s coming in 2027 and ARM-AGI-3 is marked as future https://xcancel.com/mecoscorner/status/2036510613350785418
I wonder if it's a joke like Arm-Generative-Intelligence or something like that.
Their marketing department is smoking a lot of hopium. I will now think of it as the ARM MatMul Unit.
No, the Arm TPU is coming later.