Compute
“Polaris” AmpereOne M Arm CPUs Sighted In Oracle A4 Instances
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced a $6.5 billion acquisition of Arm server CPU upstart Ampere Computing back in March, and that deal has not yet closed. …
Ampere Computing
AI
Why Did SoftBank Just Buy Ampere Computing?
The world is getting stranger, isn’t it? We understand, given the difficulties of selling Arm server chips to hyperscalers and cloud builders that are also designing and manufacturing their own Arm CPUs, why Ampere Computing, the only successful freestanding Arm server CPU supplier to even get its chips into its chosen tech titan customers, would want to be acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
Compute
The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs
Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes.
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …
Compute
It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves
As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …
Compute
Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator
With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …
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. …
Compute
Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” AmpereOne
The largest clouds will always have to buy X86 processors from Intel or AMD so long as the enterprises of the world – and the governments and educational institutions who also consume a fair number of servers – have X86 applications that are not easily ported to Arm or RISC-V architectures. …
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. …