The company ARMknown for the design of semiconductors, You will start making your own chips. The firstaccording to Financial Times, You will have it ready this yearafter reaching an agreement with His first big client. It’s about goaland the chip will be a CPU for servers designed for integration into large data centers.
The chip will be prepared to be customized to serve the needs of several clients, and ARM, whose majority shareholder is SoftBank, has already confirmed that it will outsternize its production to a chip manufacturing company, which has not yet transcended the name. If the processes continue its course, it will be ready to see the light throughout this summer.
The step that ARM is taking is a remarkable change in its strategy, which usually consists of selling the license of its chip designs to other technological ones, such as Apple and Nvidia, so that they can make the changes they want with them and adapt them to their needs before manufacturing them in series. If, from now on, he is dedicated to designing and commissioning on his own the manufacture of said chips, he will be becoming a competitor of some of his current clients.
That will not be an obstacle to continue with its traditional activity. The proof of this is that a chip designed by ARM will apparently play an important role in the plans, for now secrets, by Jony Ive to develop a new type of personal device promoted by AI, which will be a collaboration between its design firm Lovefrom, Sam Altman and Softbank.
Until now, ARM designs, which has folded its assessment since its debut in the Nasdaq index in 2023, have been used to manufacture more than 300,000 million chips. Among them practically everyone who incorporates smartphones around the world.
Their designs stand out for being quite efficient in energy consumptionwhich makes them more attractive to these types of devices than the chips of other companies. But not only for mobile devices, since They are increasingly used in machines for data centers and computers.
