Joining the artificial intelligence boom, Arm has unveiled its latest chips, the Neoverse N3 and V3, along with associated Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) technology. This move is said to be the “fastest path from concept to deployment in next-generation cloud computing.” The company also shared the names of the next-generation Neoverse CSS platforms—Vega and Ranger, suspected to be the Neoverse V4 Adonis and N4 Dionysus products.
The newest Neoverse chip technology is based on Arm’s computing architecture, allowing companies to license the newly revealed Arm IP to manufacture chips for consumer, data center, and corporate markets. This will enable Arm’s partners to produce customized chips more efficiently, affordably, and quickly compared to traditional development methods.
Arm’s Neoverse CSS V3 technology offers the “fastest path from concept to deployment in next-generation cloud computing for its global partners”, along with “a significant performance surge, better efficiency, and differentiated features”, according to the company.
The Neoverse CSS V3 chips promise a 50% performance improvement per socket compared to CSS V2 and they will feature 64 cores per cluster and up to 128 cores per socket. These chips also support all modern memory and I/O technologies, such as PCIe Gen5, CXL 3.0, and HBM3. The company highlights the opportunity for customers to create their own AI accelerator, similar to NVIDIA Grace Hopper, as one of the most interesting capabilities of the new architecture.
Arm claims that the Neoverse CSS N3 technology offers a 20% performance improvement per watt compared to CSS N2. Platform configurations will range from 8 to 32 cores, with the TDP of the 32-core version being within 40W.
Arm’s infrastructure product’s vice president, Dermot O’Driscoll, stated, “We are tuning the CSS N3 to fill the gap we see in the high-performance computing market.”
Mohamed Awad, Arm’s general manager of the infrastructure business, asserted, “The platforms we are launching today are the best generation of Arm Neoverse to date… these will form the basis of the next-generation products and services that partners will create as they implement AI workloads and permeate the entire computing continuum.” He is confident about Arm’s ecosystem’s potential and asserts that the computing future, including AI, “will be built on Arm.”
Intel confirmed Arm’s promising architecture by stating its plans to “support startups in the development of Arm-based technology, offering the necessary intellectual property, manufacturing support, and financial assistance to facilitate innovations and growth” and “provide advanced services for the manufacture of Arm-based system on chips (SoCs)”.
