Arm’s New Neoverse V1, N2 Chips Take on Intel in the Data Center Market Its strategy now is to emphasize customizability and optimization for high-performance processor cores – convenient if you may be acquired by Nvidia. If it is to be war, if there is to be a competitive market in upper-tier, server-class CPUs once again, like it was 1999, the battlefield this time will be “vector extensions.” These are the expansions that clever designers can make to a processor’s basic instruction set, enabling them to perform single, often custom (or customizable) functions on broad arrays of data rather than single registers.