IBM and Arm have formed a strategic collaboration to develop dual-architecture hardware aimed at enhancing the performance of AI and data-intensive workloads for enterprises. This partnership focuses on improving flexibility, reliability, and security in enterprise computing.

Arm produces its own silicon for specific datacenter and AI infrastructure applications while primarily licensing CPU and GPU designs. The ARM AGI CPU, announced on March 24, 2026, is designed for scalable AI infrastructure, offering high performance and extreme rack-level density for agentic AI operations in modern data centers.

Arm has announced the Arm AGI CPU, a new class of production-ready silicon built on the Arm Neoverse platform, aimed at enhancing AI infrastructure. This marks Arm's first foray into delivering its own silicon products, expanding the options for customers deploying Arm compute.

Arm aims to increase its presence in the semiconductor industry by shifting its strategy, as its designs are integral to most smartphones and connected devices but the company does not manufacture chips directly. Customers license Arm's designs, modify them, and produce the chips independently.