On Monday (November 17) local time, chip design giant Arm announced on its official website that it had partnered with Nvidia. The partnership has been deepened, and NVIDIA will promote its Neoverse computing platform through its NVLink Fusion architecture.
Arm stated that it will extend the Neoverse platform through NVIDIA 's NVLink Fusion, "potentially replicating the performance, bandwidth, and efficiency of NVIDIA's Grace Hopper and Grace Blackwell platforms across the entire ecosystem."
According to Arm, Neoverse is a computing platform designed for high efficiency, energy saving, and high-performance scaling. It is currently deployed across more than 1 billion performance cores and is expected to dominate the world's top hyperscale data centers by 2025. 50% market share.
In a press release, Arm CEO Rene Haas wrote, "Arm and NVIDIA are working together to set a new standard for AI infrastructure, bringing Grace Blackwell-level performance to all Arm-based partners. "
Previously, Arm and NVIDIA jointly launched NVLink, which enables high-speed connections between their GPUs and CPUs. This connection allows chips to share information and more effectively break down large computing tasks.
NVIDIA recently launched a new NVLink version called "Fusion," which allows GPUs to be paired with semi-custom ASICs or CPUs. This collaboration involves integrating Arm's Neoverse platform into Fusion.
Specifically, Fusion interfaces with the latest version of the AMBA CHI C2C protocol on the Neoverse platform, which means that semi-custom ASICs or CPUs designed based on Neoverse can seamlessly transfer data with NVIDIA GPUs.
Analysts believe that closer collaboration between the two companies will help solidify NVLink's position as an industry standard. For Arm, it will be able to offer customers more complete chip designs, helping it find more sources of revenue growth.
In its press release, Arm claimed that AWS, Google, and Microsoft... Oracle bone script Mainstream cloud service providers like Meta are building applications on Neoverse, and data center projects like Stargate also use Arm products as their computing platform.
It is worth mentioning that Nvidia proposed to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion in 2020, but the deal was ultimately blocked by US regulators.
(Article source: CLS)
