Arm, which is majorly owned by SoftBank, will start making its own chips now that Meta has signed on as a customer, according to the Financial Times. The chip is expected to be a CPU for servers in large data centers and can be customized for various customers. Arm will outsource its production.

The U.K.-headquartered chip design company Arm Holdings Plc. is reportedly planning to launch its first-ever complete semiconductor after securing Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms Inc. as one of its first customers.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has initiated a major recruitment drive for semiconductor design talent, signaling potential plans to develop its proprietary processors, according to industry sources in China.