Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

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For more than 35 years, Arm Holdings

has licensed its instruction sets to the world’s biggest chipmakers and collected royalties on every processor made with its designs. Now the U.K.-based company is making physical silicon of its own for the first time.

Arm CEO Rene Haas unveiled his company’s first in-house chip on Tuesday at an event in San Francisco. Arm is calling the new data center central processing unit the AGI CPU. It’s a long-anticipated move that marks a major change for the so-called Switzerland of chip firms as it enters into fresh competition with its customers.

is the first to sign on, as the social media company builds out multiple gigawatts of AI data centers and plans to shell out up to $135 billion on capital expenditures this year. In February, Meta secured a huge amount of chips from both Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices