AMPERE COMPUTING
Who Is Ampere Computing?
Ampere Computing is a modern semiconductor company delivering the first cloud native processors built for the sustainable cloud.
What Makes Ampere Different from Its Competitors?
ARM-based architecture
Ampere has designed the industry’s first Cloud Native Processors based on the ARM Aarch64 instruction set architecture (ISA).
These processors uniquely deliver the performance, scalability, security, and power efficiency that is focused on today’s computing workloads and applications from the datacenter to the edge.
The Ampere Altra Family delivers up to 128 single threaded, power-optimized computing cores per CPU, each with large dedicated caches for superior performance of cloud native workloads.
Optimized for Cloud
By providing a new level of predictable scale-out performance and efficiency, Ampere is working with leading cloud service providers, OEMs, and an expansive partner ecosystem to deliver Cloud Native Processors that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.
Optimized for AI
Ampere® Altra® Max processors deliver exceptional performance and power efficiency for AI workloads.
Ampere Altra Max is the only cloud processor that currently supports the fp16 data format while supporting fp32, and int8 data formats.
Finally, Ampere Altra Family CPUs support leading NVIDIA GPUs for heavy workload training or inferencing.
Energy-efficiency
Climate change, government policies, and ethical imperatives are prompting organizations to drive sustainability through their supply chains and data centers.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals have taken on greater urgency with accelerated global climate change and increasingly limited natural resources.
Scalable and efficient, Cloud Native Processors reduce data center power consumption and physical space requirements—a foundation for rack level efficiency and the means of a truly sustainable future.
Cloud Native Processors deliver better efficiency at scale than legacy x86 processors, without sacrificing performance.
Ampere and its New Generation of Cloud Datacenter Processors
In 2020, Ampere launched its new generation 80-core Ampere® Altra® processors and in 2021 extended that product family with the 128-core Ampere® Altra® Max processors.
In 2023, the company introduced AmpereOne™ processor family with up to 192 cores and support for 128x PCIe Gen5 lanes and 8 channels of DDR5 memory.
Ampere® Altra® VS AmpereOne™ Processors
With the addition of AmpereOne to the portfolio, Ampere is transitioning to its own custom CPU core design while remaining ARM ISA compliant. The new product line will provide more options to customers with more cores, higher bandwidth DDR5 memory support, and support for PCIe Gen5 devices.
AmpereOne also introduces new scalability, security, and performance management features. The higher processor count translates to a higher TDP ranging from 250-400W per socket. Ampere will continue to offer the family of Ampere Altra processors, providing customers with plenty of options to suit their workloads and applications.
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AmpereOne ™ Family |
| Cores | From 32 to 128 cores | From 136 to 192 cores |
| L2 Private Cache | 1MB/Core | 2MB/Core |
| Memory | 8 Channel DDR4 | 8 Channel DDR5 |
| IO | 128 Lanes PCIe Gen4 | 128 Lanes PCIe Gen5 |
| Usage Power | 40-180W | 200-350W |
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