ARM and NVIDIA have announced that the former will be joining the latter’s NVLink Fusion ecosystem. The announcement was made at the recent Supercomputing 25 conference.
“Arm is integrating NVLink IP so that their customers can build their CPU SoCs to connect Nvidia GPUs,” said Dion Harris, the head of data center product marketing at Nvidia. “ With NVLink Fusion, hyperscalers can significantly reduce design complexity, save development costs, and reach the market faster. The addition of Arm customers provides more options for specialised semi-custom infrastructure.”
There are many benefits to ARM having and being able to offer NVLink Fusion support to its customers. As Tom’s Hardware points out, as an IP provider, the chipmaker gets a new flex in the datacentre market by supporting the technology. By doing so, it is able to offer licensees the ability to build CPUs that plug in natively to NVIDIA’s AI Accelerator ecosystem.
“Folks building their own ARM CPU, or using an Arm IP can actually have access to NVLink Fusion, be able to connect that ARM CPU to an Nvidia GPU or to the rest of the NVLink ecosystem, and that’s happening at the racks and scale-up infrastructure.”
(Source: NVIDIA, Tom’s Hardware)
