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Arm unveils first in-house chip, the Arm AGI CPU, for data centers
Arm CEO Rene Haas says the new Arm AGI CPU is a power-efficient, agentic-AI focused server chip made by TSMC with Meta as the first customer, intended to expand the Arm software ecosystem without sidelining licensees.
Mar 25th 2026 · United Kingdom
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- Arm is producing its first in-house processor, the Arm AGI CPU, aimed at data center workloads.
- The company says the chip is highly power-efficient and designed for agentic AI tasks.
- Meta is the lead customer and other early customers include SK Hynix, Cisco, SAP, and Cloudflare.
- Arm contracted TSMC to fabricate the chip and is working with Super Micro and Foxconn on reference server designs.
- CEO Rene Haas says the chip will grow the Arm software ecosystem and should benefit licensees rather than displace them.
- Arm has added roughly 2,000 engineers to backend and subsystem teams while maintaining its IP licensing business.