On September 15th, ARM announced that the ARM NEOVERSE roadmap adds a new member. The new product's scalable efficiency and technological leading position rooted in ARM has also strengthened the commitment of continuous and rapid innovation of ARM supporting partners.
Chris Bergey, senior vice president and general manager of infrastructure business department, said: The industry is increasingly looking forward to accelerating performance, energy efficiency, dedicated processing capabilities, and workloads empowerment empowerment in ARM NEOVERSE to redefine and change the global computing infrastructure. Given that ARM covers the world's widest computing application and unique insights on complete computing applications, the new generation of infrastructure technology needs to rely on the performance and efficiency of ARM DNA. As the NEOVERSE roadmap adds new products today, we are ready and firmly believe that the ARM architecture is the cornerstone of future infrastructure.
The three series of V, N and E are constantly updated to iterate to meet customer needs
In order to meet the needs of large Internet and HPC customers, and without increasing power consumption and area, it further promotes cloud work load performance, ARM launches NeoVERSE V2 platform (codenamed Demeter). Deployed ARM CMN-700 Mesh interconnection technology. NeoVerse V2 will provide the leading plastic performance of the market for Yunhe HPC workload, and introduce several ARMV9 architecture security enhancement functions.
At present, many partners have been designed on the basis of NeoOVERSE V2. Among them, NVIDIA is using NEOVERSE V2 as the basis for the calculation of its Grace data center CPU. Grace will combine the energy efficiency of NeoVerse V2 and the energy efficiency of LPDDR5X memory, bringing 2 times the performance of the server with traditional architecture.
In addition, as a part of ARM continued to invest in high -efficiency performance and efficient throughput, the new generation N series products are under development and will be launched in 2023. Compared with the leading efficiency of N2, the new generation N series CPU will achieve intergenerational improvement in terms of performance and efficiency.
NeoVerse E series CPU is widely used in data plane processing, 5G RAN, edge networks, and accelerators. In order to help this multi-character, ARM launched the Neoverse E2 platform, combined with the ARM Cortex? -A510 CPU and the scalable NEOVERSE CMN-700 and N2 system backplates. The scalable core range, ARM SystemReady? Compatibility, and cloud technologies such as PCIE, CXL, IO, and interface.
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Figure: ARM NEOVERSE Roadmap
Chris Bergey pointed out: Today we bring the renewal of the ARM NEOVERSE roadmap. The newly added products are based on several key principles. We will continue to provide the infrastructure market needsPerformance, efficiency and special treatmentability. We believe that the core combinations of the V, N and E series achieved by the leading system IP will cover more markets than our friends and more efficient.
ARM architecture is the cornerstone of the cloud native software
Given that all the major cloud service providers have provided an example of ARM architecture, ARM is working with its cloud partners to optimize the infrastructure, framework and workload of cloud native software.
Welfare projects, such as Kubernetes, ISTIO, and multiple CI/CD tools provided by ARM architecture. The enhanced content includes machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, as well as cloud software workloads such as open source databases, big data and analysis, media processing. This work is cooperated with developers who contributed to the open source community. ARM has long invested and dominated the optimization of the full stack solution to promote the full stack solution on the ARM architecture, so that all end users can in the ARM architecture Construct a new generation of applications.
Dermot O’driscoll, vice president of product solution of ARM Infrastructure Division, said: Over the years, we have been working hard to achieve and optimize the full stack solution running on the ARM architecture. From architecture and IP to technology libraries, operating environment and compilers, we have enabled all the infrastructure software you see here to extract maximum performance.
Taking the application stack of MongoDB as the mainstream data as an example, by comparing the examples based on Graviton2 and Intel Xeon from AWS, ARM measured MongoDB's performance as much as 117% of friends. To achieve this level of performance advantages, CPU architecture and software support are indispensable. At the CPU architecture level, through ARMV8.1, ARM introduced large system extensions (LSE). LSE aims to provide better performance for large virtualized workloads, that is, applications running on the server. The same operation in the GCC and CLANG compiler. Each application is actually a complex architecture and software stack, which requires the team to enable and optimize. In some cases, ARM can work directly, but many times, ARM needs to cooperate with the open source community to achieve these changes.
The advantages of the ARM software ecosystem are combined with the NEOVERSE platform and leading high -performance bus technologies such as AMBA Chi, UCIE, and CXL, which enables ARM partners to develop customized solutions from cloud to edge.
It is worth mentioning that except for ARM, no other technical provider can combine speed, breadth, and technological innovation to empower ARM's powerful partners and developer ecosystems, so that it can develop and build future systems quickly.
Customized solution from cloud to edge
Based on NEOVERSE platforms are through market -leading scalable efficiency, so that ARM ecological partners can freely innovate in various infrastructure fields, thereby redefining the possibility of cloud computing.
Since its launch in 2018, NEOVERSE has been quickly adopted, and now all major public clouds have provided examples based on NEOVERSE. Including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Oracle and other technology giants. This means that every developer around the world can now obtain ARM NEOVERSE.
In 5G RAN and wireless infrastructure, ARM provides leading performance with lower power consumption and better throughput, thereby achieving key total cost (TCO) advantages. This enables ARM's partners to customize products such as small base stations, Hongji stations, and special networks. Through the ARM 5G solution laboratory, ARM is working with the leaders of 5G ecosystems such as Dish Wireless, Google Cloud, Marvell, NXP, Vodafone, to accelerate the end -to -end 5G network on the ARM architecture.
At the same time, with the release of the 11th -generation platform of HPE Proliant based on Ampere Altra, and VMware's Project Monterey, the OpenShift support ARM architecture and SAP HANA of the Redhat, and SAP HANA migrated its cloud infrastructure to AWS Graviton, an ARM enabled AWS Graviton, The launch of the project, ARM is also entering a more traditional corporate field.
We cooperate closely with the main market participants in Yun, HPC and wireless infrastructure, so we truly understand their workloads and challenges. Dermot O’driscoll said that this allows us to ensure that the functional set definition and PPA value proposition we provide can effectively solve these challenges. At present, everything we do is to customize the demand for specific markets to help them stand out in the fierce market.
There is no doubt that with its unique business model, the world's first -class engineering team, and a variety of partner ecosystems, ARM is based on the position of leading the development of a new generation of infrastructure.
In the media questioning session, a reporter asked: Now that the amount of data has shown explosive growth, how does ARM plan the future of NEOVERSE micro -architecture? From the perspective of customer experience, what new goals does ARM have in infrastructure architecture?
Dermot O’driscoll replied: We listened to the needs of partners, and they paid much attention to performance. But with the explosive growth of data, they need more effective solutions and are more effective solutions than traditional architecture. This will enable them to have multi -core multi -chip solutions and acceleration capabilities for specific applications. These are helpful to improve efficiency.
In addition, there are media friends asking questions: What is the difference in architecture and performance specifically for cloud -native CPUs and traditional CPUs?
Brian Jeff pointed out that Yunbang is a way of development, which will give priority to considering container -based software and microservices. ARM found that this model is very suitable for high -core designs. It is equipped with large -scale single -core L2 cache and dedicated core, not virtual threads. Therefore, the core design of the core of ARM NEOVERSE actually considers these goals. In terms of other elements designed by Yun, ARM focuses on the cloud workload of infrastructure. ARM actually adjusts the assembly line in the NEOVERSE product line so that it can show excellent performance in these specific cloud native workloads.
最后，有人向Frank Zou提问：我们看到国内很多初创公司纷纷投入 Arm 架构开发，面向众多细分领域：比如云原生计算 CPU、DPU 等等。您如何看待这些初创公司在新一轮基础设施升级中所能发挥的作用？他们和巨头竞争的优势以及 Arm 所能提供的支持是什么？市场是否能容纳这么多新玩家？
Frank Zou said that last year, when NEOVERSE was updated, ARM mentioned that the Neoverse platform was strong in the Chinese market, including partnerships with Chinese companies, not only large companies, but also some startups. This year, three startups from China in the video of the partner in the video. Among them, Yuxian Microelectronics and Hongjun Microelectronics are the development of the CPU dedicated to the cloud native server, and the third Yunpan Intelligence is targeted at the DPU field. They are developing products based on NEOVERSE N2. ARM believes that the ARM NEOVERSE platform can definitely provide a good opportunity for these startups to catch up with the computing upgrade of China's infrastructure in recent years.
ARM cooperates closely with these startups during the chip design stage. ARM has very close engineering cooperation with these startups. Compared with large enterprises, startups do have its advantages. They are very dedicated to the development of product planning, their development speed is very fast, and they are also very open. They have absorbed many outstanding talents in the chip design field of the Chinese market. ARM is confident that they will eventually gain a lot in this market.
Can the Chinese market support so many players. The answer is yes. ARM believes that the Chinese market is a huge market. For example, in the server field, the Chinese market accounts for almost 25% or 30% of global server consumption. At the same time, China has a very large 5G market, and these two markets are the market positioned by ARM & Nbsp; NeoVerse. & nbsp;
Summarize
At present, the development momentum of ARM in the field of data centers is rapid. After the NEOVERSE V2 platform is promoted to the market, some partners have already created cores based on NeoVerse V2, and even launched the chip in 2023, which fully illustrates the market's ARM NEOVERSE platform on the ARM NEOVERSE platform. Admission and acceptance are very high. In the future, ARM will continuously update iterative NEOVERSE roadmaps in extended efficiency, leading position, rapid innovation steps, and ecosystems to ensure that their customers provide better services to ensure success.
