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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/18\/ampere-launches-a-new-cloud-native-processor-family-with-its-first-custom-designed-cores\/<\/a><\/br> Over the course of the last few years, thanks to its Altra and Altra Max processors, Ampere<\/a> made a name for itself as one of the premier suppliers of Arm-based chips to large cloud services providers. These chips were also based on Arm-designed cores, though. Today, the company is officially launching the Ampere One family, its first set of processors with custom-designed chips highly optimized for data center use cases.<\/p>\n While the Altra Max chips, which started shipping in 2021 were based on Arm\u2019s Neoverse N1 architecture, these new cores were designed in-house and built on a 5nm process.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is time for us as an industry to meet the moment and embrace change. Our future growth as an industry depends on it,\u201d Ampere CEO Renee James said. \u201cThe cloud has ushered in a whole new world and approach to software development. Isn\u2019t it time for the microprocessor to do the same?\u201d<\/p>\n These processors remain compatible with the Arm instruction set, so there\u2019s nothing new developers have to do to support them, but more importantly, by designing its own cores, Ampere was able to optimize these processors for its core user base of large cloud platforms. The new AmpereOne chips can support up to 192 cores, a significant upgrade from the Altra Max chips\u2019 maximum of 128. In the AmpereOne family, every core now also gets 2MB of L2 private cache (up from 1MB) and the company added several features that ensure that every core gets access to the same amount of memory bandwidth (or not, if that\u2019s what the user desires) and provide more fine-grained power management, for example. There are also features like process aging monitoring, which helps these vendors better manage the lifecycle of the processor and monitor it for issues, as well as advanced droop detection<\/a> and security features like memory tagging and single-key memory encryption.<\/p>\n The idea here is to build a chip that is custom-designed for the cloud. \u201cNot only are we delivering a processor, that is high performance, low power, but it\u2019s also one that\u2019s uniquely well suited for the cloud. That\u2019s why we call it the cloud native processor. We built it from the ground up for this use case,\u201d Ampere CPO Jeff Wittich<\/a> told me.<\/p>\n As Wittich told me, the company increasingly hears from customers who are looking to reduce the carbon emissions from their data centers and manage their energy costs \u2014 a problem that\u2019s especially acute for data center operators in the European Union. Ampere \u2014 and Arm\u2019s server-centric chips \u2014 have long promised to offer more performance per kilowatt than the competition from Intel and AMD. Ampere now mostly describes this as performance per rack and argues that in its benchmark of running a typical web application, a rack of 36 Ampere CPUs provides the same performance as two racks of AMD Epyc CPUs and three racks of Intel Xeon CPUs. The company didn\u2019t provide updated benchmarks for the AmpereOne processors, but Wittich argued that its performance per watt is comparable to the Altra family.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing able to go in and say: I can provide you a server that consumes half the power and deliver twice the performance of the alternative that\u2019s a pretty easy sell for [OEMs] now,\u201d Wittich told me. \u201cObviously, some people now understand the sustainability angle to it, too.\u201d And even if sustainability is only a second-order problem for some data center operators, he noted, they are now increasingly limited by the power available to them in some metropolitan areas \u2014 plus, it\u2019s getting harder to get new data centers approved, so many operators have to figure out ways to increase the performance within their existing physical footprint.<\/p>\n Current Ampere customers include the likes of Google Cloud, Microsoft<\/span> While Ampere will continue to offer its existing Altra family and has no plans to discontinue it, the company also won\u2019t be launching any new chips in this range. \u201cAll of our future processors will rely on our own custom cores,\u201d Wittich said. \u201cThe big thing about Ampere One that makes so impactful is that this is the start of every one of our future products. We\u2019ve got our custom cores out there now and that\u2019s the basis for everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
\nAmpere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores<\/br>
\n2023-05-18 22:03:29<\/br><\/p>\n
Azure, Oracle Cloud<\/span>, Alibaba,<\/span> and<\/span> Tencent,<\/span> as well as OEMs like HPE and Supe<\/span>rmicro. It\u2019s easy to spot the one large cloud provider that is missing from this list, but AWS has long bet on its own Graviton<\/a> line of Arm-based chips, so that\u2019s not likely to change anytime soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n