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A new ARM chip design being announced on Monday is targeted at supercomputers, a lucrative market in which the company has no presence. ARM’s new chip design, which has mobile origins, has extensions and tweaks to boost computing power.
The announcement comes a few weeks after Japanese company Softbank said it would buy ARM for a mammoth $32 billion. With the cash, ARM is expected to sharpen its focus on servers and the internet of things.
ARM’s new chip design will help the company on two fronts. ARM is sending a warning to Intel, IBM and other chip makers that it too can develop fast supercomputing chips. The company will also join a race among countries and chip makers to build the world’s fastest computers.
The chip design is being detailed at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California, on Monday.
The new ARM processor design will be based on the 64-bit ARM-v8A architecture and have vector processing extensions called Scalable Vector Extension. Vector processors drove early supercomputers, which then shifted over to less expensive IBM RISC chips in the early 1990s, and on to general-purpose x86 processors, which are in most high-performance servers today.
ARM will announce new supercomputer chip design at Hot Chips
The announcement comes a few weeks after Japanese company Softbank said it would buy ARM for a mammoth $32 billion. With the cash, ARM is expected to sharpen its focus on servers and the internet of things.
ARM’s new chip design will help the company on two fronts. ARM is sending a warning to Intel, IBM and other chip makers that it too can develop fast supercomputing chips. The company will also join a race among countries and chip makers to build the world’s fastest computers.
The chip design is being detailed at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California, on Monday.
The new ARM processor design will be based on the 64-bit ARM-v8A architecture and have vector processing extensions called Scalable Vector Extension. Vector processors drove early supercomputers, which then shifted over to less expensive IBM RISC chips in the early 1990s, and on to general-purpose x86 processors, which are in most high-performance servers today.
ARM will announce new supercomputer chip design at Hot Chips