Mohamed Awad on why performance per watt is the new AI data center benchmark

Arm®
236 views January 23, 2026

As AI workloads scale at an unprecedented rate, the defining challenge for the modern data center is peak performance alone as well as performance per watt across the entire system. In this keynote from OCP Global Summit, Mohamed Awad, EVP of Cloud AI at Arm, outlines why the next era of AI infrastructure demands deep, system-level optimisation. From custom silicon and purpose-built accelerators to tightly tuned compute, networking, and memory, today’s AI data centers are being architected holistically to extract more value from every watt of power. Mohamed also explores Arm’s approach to enabling faster, more affordable innovation through initiatives like Arm Total Design and shared system architectures developed with partners across the infrastructure ecosystem. Learn more: https://www.arm.com/markets/computing-infrastructure/datacenter-ai Stay connected with Arm: Website: http://arm.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/arm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Arm/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arm/

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