At the OCP Global Summit 2025, Arm’s Mohamed Awad, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Business, delivered a keynote urging the data center industry to rethink how systems are built in the age of AI. His talk, titled “What AI Wants: New Silicon, New Systems, and a New Era for the Data Center,” highlighted that performance-per-watt optimization, ecosystem collaboration, and custom silicon are key to meeting the explosive growth in AI workloads.