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Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave

April 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …

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Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers

January 3, 2023 Tobias Mann 4

Supermicro has become the latest of the big OEMs to add Arm-based systems to its portfolio, with the launch of its Mt. …

HPC

Strong-Armed Into HPC, Like It Or Not

July 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If you are an HPC center in Europe, and particularly one that is funded by public funds, you are thinking about Arm-based CPUs in your supercomputers. …

Compute

HPE Is The First Big OEM To Adopt Ampere Computing Arm Chips

June 29, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of alternate processor architectures outside of the standard Xeon X86 CPUs that comprise the vast majority of its revenues and shipments, particularly with Arm server chips starting in 2011. …

Compute

Ampere Roadmap Has Four Future Arm Server Chips

May 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

This time last year, Arm server CPU startup Ampere Computing provided a roadmap running out through 2023 describing its future products, aimed at demonstrating its commitment to the idea of Arm server chips. …

Compute

Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James

May 19, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Outside of the HPC market where there are a number of companies that have delivered or are working on Arm-based server processors, Ampere Computing is the main independent supplier of Arm-based server chips with its current 80-core Altra chips and its impending 128-core Altra Max chips, which are sampling now and will start shipping in the third quarter. …

Compute

Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines

March 8, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

We have a bad case of the silicon shakes and a worsening deficiency in iron here at The Next Platform, but the good news is that new CPU processors from AMD and Intel are imminent, and more processors are expected later this year from IBM and Ampere Computing, too. …

Compute

Ampere Steams Ahead With Arm Server Chips

January 19, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As we pointed out recently, there has been a certain amount of tumult and change in recent months in the Arm server processor space. …

Compute

Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker

June 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …

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