Arm Takes On Intel With Neoverse Cloud-to-Edge Chip Designs

Arm launched two new Neoverse platforms for cloud and edge applications today, ahead of MWC 2019 in Barcelona. Arm first unveiled the Neoverse brand in October, and a month later Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it had built new computing instances based on this Arm architecture. The Neoverse N1 platform is optimized for 7nm process technology and focuses on compute speed. “This N1 platform is really about the core compute you need in the hyperscale data center, at the 5G base station, or at an internet gateway,” said Drew Henry, Arm’s SVP and GM for infrastructure. This chip design performs better than previous Arm CPU generations: the company claims it can deliver 2.5 times more performance on cloud workloads such as Nginx and MemcacheD. It can also scale from 4 to 128 cores, which Arm says gives its chipmaker partners the ability to build more diverse products by adding accelerators or other features with their own on-chip custom silicon.