When it is about to go public, ARM steps on the accelerator also in the development for servers thanks to the availability of the Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) Projecta program focused on simplify and accelerate the adoption of ARM Neoverse-based technology in new computing solutions. This means, neither more nor less, that it is a commitment to accelerate the launch of chips for servers by ARM, as well as to reduce their design and manufacturing costs.
ARM’s Neoverse technology, specific for servers, is intended for high-performance systems, focused like ARM’s mobile chips, on energy efficiency. Thus, with this project, the company’s partners will be able to develop specialized components for servers, but in a more affordable and faster way than with existing discrete intellectual property solutions.
The first product to emerge from Neoverse Compute Subsystems is the ARM CSS N2. Based on the Neoverse N2 platform announced in 2020, it offers partners a customizable computing subsystem, allowing them to focus on memory, acceleration, chip I/O, and more.
The N2 can be configured with between 24 and 64 cores, each clocked between 2.1 GHz and 3.6 GHz, with 1 MB of L2 cache, and a total of 64 MB of shared system cache. . This design supports up to eight channels of DDR5 memory and 64 lanes of PCIe 5.0 connectivity. It is intended for the development of chips for horizontally scalable cloud systems, Artificial Intelligence applications, data processing units and network equipment, among other purposes.
In addition, ARM wants CSS partners to have access to more complete designs, which would reduce the volume of work that partners would have to do on their own to create their own chips. The company is not dedicated to the manufacture of chips, but its job is to design them and sell their license to third parties so that they can manufacture them and design their models from them.
