Revision as of 12:58, 20 February 2019

Neoverse N1 (codename Ares) is a high-performance ARM microarchitecture designed by ARM Holdings for the server market. This microarchitecture is designed as a synthesizable IP core and is sold to other semiconductor companies to be implemented in their own chips.

History

Arm's server roadmap.

Ares was first announced by Drew Henry, Arm’s SVP and GM of Infrastructure Business Unit, at his TechCon 2018 keynote. Ares was officially unveiled on February 20, 2019.

Release Dates

Ares was officially disclosed on February 20, 2019.

Process Technology

Ares specifically takes advantage of the power and area advantages of the 7 nm process.

Architecture

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• 7 nm process

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Block Diagram

Typical SoC

Individual Core

Die

N1 core

• 7 nm process
• 1 Core + L2
• 1.2 mm² die size (1C + 512 KiB L2)
• 1.4 mm² die size (1C + 1 MiB L2)
• 1 W @ 2.6 GHz (0.75 V), 1.8 W @ 3.1 W (1.0 V)

Bibliography

• Drew Henry keynote, TechCon 2018 keynote.
• Drew Henry, direct communication
• Most of the technical details were obtained directly from Arm