Arm is aiming to win half of data center CPU market by year's end

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust The big picture: The AI boom is significantly changing the enterprise and data center market. Arm predicts that chips based on its designs will soon amount to around 50% of CPUs used in data centers. According to Arm Senior VP Mohamed Awad, the company's market share in this sector will grow by 15 percent over 2024. Chips based on the Arm architecture used to play a marginal role in the data center business. However, things are changing fast and Arm expects substantial financial rewards thanks to the company's key partners in the market. Arm struggled to compete against the x86 enterprise leadership for nearly 20 years due to significant hardware infrastructure changes and the associated costs. Reuters notes that Arm CPUs have increased in popularity in data centers thanks to their lower power consumption levels compared to x86 chips made by Intel and AMD. Compounding the problem are th ... Read full article.