Oracle plans to bring Arm AGI CPU to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in fall 2027, a plan it outlined at its Oracle AI World event. The planned offering would serve OCI customers running ordinary cloud applications today and the agentic AI services they are building next.
Mohamed Awad, Arm's executive vice president of Cloud AI, wrote for Arm that agents create additional CPU demand as they execute code, retrieve data, invoke tools and coordinate tasks, and that the chip is meant to deliver more useful work within data center power and cooling limits. Mahesh Thiagarajan, president of OCI, said Oracle plans to extend Arm-based compute "across general-purpose cloud workloads and agentic AI." Arm gave no instance shapes, pricing or regions for the offering, or which of the chip's three SKUs OCI will use.
Arm calls the AGI CPU its first production silicon. The three SKUs share Neoverse V3 cores built on TSMC's 3 nm process and a 300 W base TDP, a preset within a configurable range. Each supports 12x DDR5 RDIMM memory at up to 8800 MT/s and offers 96 PCIe Gen6 lanes with CXL 3.0. Where they differ is core count, clock speed and memory throughput per core, as Arm details:
| SKU | Cores | Max frequency | Memory throughput per core |
|---|---|---|---|
| 136C (max core count) | 136 | 3.5 GHz | 6 GB/s |
| 128C (TCO optimized) | 128 | 3.5 GHz | 6.3 GB/s |
| 64C (max memory per core) | 64 | 3.7 GHz | 13 GB/s |
Arm says the chip delivers up to 2x performance per rack against AMD's EPYC Turin across key agentic AI workloads, citing testing that Signal65 ran in collaboration with Arm, so the comparison is made per rack and not chip against chip. Arm's reference rack holds 30 air-cooled 1U servers with two chips each. That comes to 60 chips and 8,160 cores within a 36 kW rack target. It is Arm's own configuration, not anything Oracle has committed to deploy.
Oracle first joined the Arm AGI CPU ecosystem on June 2 at Computex, Arm said at the time, alongside customers it had named in March, including Cerebras, Cloudflare, F5, Meta, OpenAI, Positron, Rebellions, SAP, SK Telecom and Verda.
Arm compute is already on OCI: Ampere-powered instances cover enterprise applications, containers, web services and data processing, and NVIDIA's Arm-based Vera CPUs are now generally available on the platform. Arm says the AGI CPU would broaden that portfolio, on a software base that already spans Oracle Linux, Java, MySQL and widely used cloud-native tools.
