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The ARM Neoverse is a group of 64-bit ARM processor cores licensed by Arm Holdings. The cores are intended for datacenter, edge computing, and high-performance computing use. The group consists of ARM Neoverse V-Series, ARM Neoverse N-Series, and ARM Neoverse E-Series.[1][2]

Neoverse V-Series

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The Neoverse V-Series processors are intended for high-performance computing.

Neoverse V1

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Neoverse V1 (code named Zeus[3]) is derived from the Cortex-X1[4] and implements the ARMv8.4-A instruction set and some part of ARMv8.6-A.[5] It was officially announced by Arm on September 22, 2020.[6] It is said to be initially realized with a 7 nm process from TSMC. One of the changes from the X1 is that it supports SVE 2x256-bit.

According to The Next Platform, the AWS Graviton3 is based on the Neoverse V1.[7][8]

Neoverse V2

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Neoverse V2 (code named Demeter) is derived from the ARM Cortex-X3 and implements the ARMv9.0-A instruction set. It was officially announced by Arm on September 14, 2022.[9][10] NVIDIA Grace,[11] AWS Graviton4[12] and Google Axion[13] are based on the Neoverse V2.

Notable changes from the Neoverse V1:[14]

  • BTB capacity: 12K entries
  • TAGE predictor: 8-table
  • micro-op cache: 1536 entries (reduced for efficiency)
  • Decode width: 6
  • Rename / Dispatch width: 8
  • ROB: 320 entry
  • Execution ports: 15
  • L2 cache: 1024-2048 KB per core
  • CMN-700 mesh interconnect
    • Up to 256 cores per die
    • Up to 512 MB SLC
    • Up to 4 TB/s bandwidth

Neoverse V3

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Neoverse V3 (code named Poseidon) was teased by Arm alongside the V2 and E2 announcements.[15] It is targeted for systems including DDR5, PCIe gen6, and CXL 3.0. The codename Poseidon was first used for the generation succeeding Zeus, now V1, and targeted for 2021 on a 5nm node.[16]

Neoverse N-Series

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The Neoverse N-Series processors are intended for core datacenter usage.

Neoverse N1

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On February 20, 2019, Arm announced the Neoverse N1 microarchitecture (code named Ares) derived from the Cortex-A76 redesigned for infrastructure/server applications. The reference design supports up to 64 or 128 Neoverse N1 cores.[17][18]

Notable changes from the Cortex-A76:

  • Coherent I-cache and D-cache with 4-cycle LD-use
  • L2 cache: 512–1024 KB per core
  • Mesh interconnect instead of 1–4 cores per cluster

Neoverse N1 implements the ARMv8.2-A instruction set.

The Ampere Altra (2-socket 80-core) and AWS Graviton2 (64-core) CPU platforms are based on Neoverse N1 cores and were released in 2020.[19]

Neoverse N2

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The Neoverse N2 (code named Perseus) is derived from the Cortex-A710 and implements the ARMv9.0-A instruction set.[19] It was officially announced by Arm on September 22, 2020.[6] On August 28, 2023, Arm announced the Neoverse CSS N2 (Genesis), a customizable CPU subsystem implementation by Arm to reduce the time to market for customers.[20][21][22][23] Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 128 Core CPU uses Neoverse N2.[24]

Notable changes from the Neoverse N1:[25][26]

  • BTB capacity: 8K entries
  • micro-op cache: 1536 entries
  • Rename / Dispatch width: 5
  • ROB: 160+ entry
  • Pipeline depth: 10 cycles
  • Execution ports: 13
  • SVE2 support
  • CMN-700 mesh interconnect

Neoverse N-Next

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Neoverse N-Next, presumably N3, was teased by Arm alongside the V2 and E2 announcements.[15] It is targeted for systems including DDR5, PCIe gen6, and CXL 3.0.

Neoverse E-Series

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The Neoverse E-Series processors are intended for edge computing. They are designed for increased data throughput at decreased power consumption.

Neoverse E1

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Neoverse E1 is derived from the Cortex-A65AE[27] and implements the ARMv8.2-A instruction set. It support SMT.

Neoverse E2

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Neoverse E2 is derived from the Cortex-A510[15] and implements the ARMv9-A instruction set.

Neoverse E-Next

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Neoverse E-Next, presumably E3, was teased by Arm alongside the V2 and E2 announcements.[15] It is targeted for systems including DDR5, PCIe gen6, and CXL 3.0.

Matrix multiplication theoretical performance

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ops/cycle per core
INT8 BF16 FP32 FP64
Neoverse N1[28] 64 32 16 8
Neoverse N2[28] 128 64 16 8
Neoverse V1[28] 256 128 32 16
Intel 3rd Gen Xeon SP[29] 256 — 64 32
Intel 4th Gen Xeon SP[29] 2048 1024 64 32

Successors

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With code name Poseidon a successor for Neoverse V1 (aka Zeus)[30] was first publicly mentioned on TechCon 2018. Actual introduction (used by third party chip designers in their products) was given in form of a rough target date of 2021. Its initial realization process is said to be 5 nm by TSMC.

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