EA focusing on ARM
With the NVIDIA N1 series imminent, one of the largest publishers has started efforts to ensure that their anticheat system is native on ARM.
EA has posted a job opening that points to native ARM64 support for its kernel-level EA Javelin Anticheat, a move that lines up with the wider push toward Windows on Arm gaming hardware. The timing also matches growing attention around NVIDIA’s rumored N1 and N1X PC processors, which are expected to bring Arm CPU cores into more consumer-facing PCs and laptops.
In the listing, EA is recruiting a “ Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer, ARM64 ” for its security organization. The responsibilities include developing a native ARM driver for EA Javelin Anticheat, adding logic to load different anti-cheat versions depending on the user’s hardware, and setting up automated build and validation pipelines on ARM hardware.
© EA The role includes charting a path for EA Javelin Anticheat to support additional operating systems and hardware “ such as Linux and Proton, ” which is notable because kernel anti-cheat is one of the harder parts of broad compatibility across platforms.
NVIDIA N1 Series are based on ARM
On the silicon side, NVIDIA’s current GB10 “Superchip” platform already ships in the DGX Spark, and NVIDIA lists its CPU configuration as a 20-core Arm setup with 10 Cortex-X925 cores plus 10 Cortex-A725 cores. A likely similar, if not identical, configuration is expected to debut on the NVIDIA N1 chip.
Recently, Chips and Cheese benchmarked Arm’s Cortex-X925 as implemented in NVIDIA’s GB10 and concluded it can reach “performance parity” with AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lion Cove in SPEC CPU2017 integer, while Zen 5 retains an edge in floating point.
But it is not just about performance, X86 emulation remains the key issue for Arm PCs because most Windows games still ship as x86 binaries, and kernel components like anti-cheat need native support rather than translation. If NVIDIA’s N1 and N1X systems arrive soon, EA’s ARM64 anti-cheat work could remove one of the practical blockers for running more EA PC titles on Windows on Arm devices.
Source: EA Jobs , Chips & Cheese
