Compute
The Year Ahead In Datacenter Compute
For more than a decade, the pace of the server market was set by the rollout of Intel’s Xeon processors each year. …
Ampere Computing
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
The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond Hyperscalers
Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a company threatened by their very existence has to do two things. …
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. …
Compute
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
Compute
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines
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
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
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Compute
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
Compute
Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …