Chip designer Arm has outlined a pair of new products which will be important in deepening its penetration into the data centre market. The firm added the new Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 platforms to its roadmap last September, and yesterday it fleshed out the new features and the main selling points of the new platforms in a special presentation. As you might expect, the Neoverse N2 and Neoverse V1 platforms take different approaches to data centre computing, broadly forking to cover the two most important application areas for such processors. Arm's Neoverse N2 is the first of its data centre processors to use the new Armv9 architecture. The highlight is that the N2 offers 40 per cent higher 1T performance (compared with the N1) at the same power/efficiency levels. Arm forecasts the Neoverse N2 being popular in edge applications to the cloud.