Trim he said Tuesday is partnering with Arm to create a new family of CPUs designed to support a growing number of AI and general-purpose computing applications in its growing portfolio.
The first product, called the Arm AGI CPU, is being positioned as the best way to create an optimized AI-style processor.
Meta said the chip should improve performance on the rack and help deploy gigawatt-sized AI systems, which the company sees as a key part of its push toward high-performance AI systems. The Arm AGI CPU will work in tandem with Meta’s MTIA silicon, adding another layer to the company’s efforts to develop a variety of training and coaching tools.
The announcement adds to Meta’s recent financial boom. In February, Meta he signed a long-term partnership with AMD for up to 6 gigabytes of Instinct GPUs, and earlier this month Reuters reported that Meta had set the stage for new in-house AI chips as it tested its data centers.
Reuters report that the AGI CPU is Arm’s first large-scale in-house data center project, marking a significant step down from their previous licensing models for their peers. Reuters also reported that Meta is the leader in production, that TSMC is producing the chip on a 3-nanometer process, and volume production is expected in the second half of 2026.
Hand he said AGI CPUs are designed for the AI era, where CPUs are responsible for managing accelerators, memory, storage, networks, and the number of distributed AI tasks. In its configuration, Arm says the air-cooled rack can handle 30 blades and provide 8,160 cores, while Supermicro’s water-cooled model can handle more than 45,000 cores per rack.
Arm also claims that this device can save up to two times more than current x86 machines and says that this could translate to up to $10 billion in savings per gigawatt of AI data centers.
Arm said the AGI CPU will be available to other customers beyond Meta, with OpenAI, Cloudflare, SAP, SK Telecom, Cerebras, and others already mentioned as partners. Meta also said it plans to release its board and CPU rack designs through the Open Compute Project later this year, which will help speed up the pace of data architecture.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Meta shares were trading at around $595.20, down 1.5% on the day, while Arm shares were around $135.20, down 1.2% on the day.
