ISVs, OEMs, carriers, chip designers, and more.
Arm accelerates innovation by encouraging diversity. While Arm produces designs for CPUs and other processors, the Neoverse-based chips produced by partners such as NXP, Marvell, Ampere, and others vary by cache size, speed, core count, and other attributes. Arm CPUs can also be coupled with GPUs or NPUs into SoCs.
The result is a growing portfolio of processors optimized for different use cases, applications, and devices.
Meanwhile, Arm collaborates with VMWare, SUSE, Canonical, and Red Hat, among other companies, and the cloud native software community to expand the range of options. For the cloud community, Arm has become a primary platform. We've also assembled a broad portfolio of tools, libraries, and other resources for developing on Arm.
Oracle has achieved price performance uplifts of more than 30% on workloads like NGINX with Neoverse-based Ampere instances and worked with developers like Github and Jenkins to build a software ecosystem.
RIKEN, Japan's largest research institute, and Fujitsu began to design a successor to their K Supercomputer in 2014. The goal was to develop a system that would deliver a 100x increase in speed for computationally intense R&D workloads as well as the versatility for a variety of workloads, including commercial ones.5
In collaboration with Arm, Fujitsu developed the AFX64, a CPU based around 64 Arm processors containing a new technology called Scalable Vector Extension (SVE).
The result was Fugaku, which was named the world's fastest supercomputer in the world when it debuted in 2020. Just as importantly, it swept all of the high performance benchmarks, a first.6
The Fugaku story, however, doesn't stop there. Fugaku's underlying technology is percolating through the market through further collaborative efforts. SVE and SVE2 are integral elements of Arm's Neoverse architecture while institutes such as the University of Regensberg have adopted AFX64 for their own systems. Additionally, RIKEN has launched an HPC in the cloud initiative based on Fugaku.
Containing over 158,000 CPUs built with over 8 million Arm-based processors, Fugaku is the world's most powerful supercomputer. But it's also one of the most versatile and is being deployed to find COVID-19 vaccines, simulate tsunamis, and other tasks.
Arm is also actively engaged in establishing and promoting standards to remove roadblocks to adoption. Some of our efforts include:
