Compute
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
Altra
Compute
Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers
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
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. …
Cloud
Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
Compute
HPE Is The First Big OEM To Adopt Ampere Computing Arm Chips
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
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
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
Compute
The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft
Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …
AI
Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …
Compute
Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James
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. …