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AMPERE | |
Type | Private |
Industry | Semiconductors |
Founded | October 2017 |
Founder | Renée James |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Products | Integrated circuits, Microprocessors |
Number of employees | 800 (2021[1]) |
Website | amperecomputing |
Ampere Computing LLC is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California that develops ARM-based computer processors for servers.[2] Ampere also has offices in: Portland, Oregon; Taipei, Taiwan; Raleigh, North Carolina; Bangalore, India; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[3]
History[edit]
In October 2017, Ampere Computing was founded by Renée James after The Carlyle Group acquired AppliedMicro's X-Gene intellectual property, assets and architectural license from MACOM Technology Solutions.[4][5][6]
In April 2018, Ampere joined the Green Computing Consortium (GCC) as a Platinum Member, and Renée James was named as the vice chair of the GCC.[7] In September 2018, Ampere announced a partnership with Lenovo, with Lenovo releasing 1U and 2U platforms with Ampere eMAG.[8]
In March 2019, bare metal cloud service provider Packet announced their c2.large.arm configuration featuring Ampere's eMAG 8180.[9] In April 2019, Ampere announced their second major investment round, including investment from Arm Holdings and Oracle Corporation.[10][11] In June 2019, Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).[12] In November 2019, Nvidia announced a reference design platform for graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated ARM-based servers including Ampere eMAG.[13]
In the first half of 2020, Ampere announced Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max, a cloud native processor. [14]
In September 2020, Oracle said it would launch bare-metal and virtual machine instances in early 2021 based on Ampere Altra. [15]
In November 2020, Ampere was named one of the top 10 hottest semiconductor startups. [16]
Products[edit]
Ampere develops ARM-based computer processors under their eMAG and Altra brands.
On February 5, 2018, Ampere announced the eMAG 8180 featuring 32x Skylark cores fabricated on TSMC’s 16FF+ process. It supports a turbo of up to 3.3 GHz with a TDP of 125 W, 8ch 64-bit DDR4, up to 1TB DDR4 per socket, and 42x PCIe 3.0 Lanes.[6] The Skylark cores were based on AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3.[6][17] Packet offers servers with the eMAG 8180 and 128 GB DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and 2x 10 Gbit/s networking.[18] On September 19, 2018, Ampere announced the availability of a version featuring 16x Skylark cores.[19]
On March 3, 2020, Ampere announced the Ampere Altra featuring 80x Quicksilver cores fabricated on TSMC's N7 process.[20][21] The Quicksilver cores are semi-custom Arm Neoverse N1 cores with Ampere modifications.[22] It supports a frequency of up to 3.3 GHz with TDP of 250 W, 8ch 72-bit DDR4, up to 4TB DDR4 per socket, 128x PCIe 4.0 Lanes, 1MB L2 per core and 32MB SLC.[20][21]
Ampere also announced their roadmap with Altra Max (2021) in development and Siryn (2022) defined. Altra Max will use the same socket as Altra.[21]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Former Intel President at Reins in ARM Chip Startup". Data Center Knowledge. 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "About Us – Ampere Computing". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Contact – Ampere Computing". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Ampere Computing Holdings LLC | The Carlyle Group". www.carlyle.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "MACOM Announces Successful Divestiture of AppliedMicro's Compute Business". MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. October 27, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-11-01.
- ^ a b c "X-Gene 3 gets a second chance at Ampere with a new 32-core 16nm ARM processor". WikiChip Fuse. 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Ampere Joins Green Computing Consortium (GCC) as a Platinum Member – Ampere Computing". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Kennedy, Patrick (2018-09-18). "Ampere eMAG is now Shipping Product with Lenovo as a Major Partner". ServeTheHome. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Ampere. "Ampere and Packet Partner to Expand Adoption of eMAG™ Processors for Next-Generation Cloud and Edge Workloads". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Cutress, Ian. "Ampere Computing: Arm is Now an Investor". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Levy, Ari (2019-09-27). "Oracle discloses $40 million stake in Ampere, a chip start-up founded by former Intel president Renee James". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Newsroom, NVIDIA. "NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm, Enabling New Path to Exascale Supercomputing". NVIDIA Newsroom Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Newsroom, NVIDIA. "NVIDIA and Tech Leaders Team to Build GPU-Accelerated Arm Servers for New Era of Diverse HPC Architectures". NVIDIA Newsroom Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Ampere's 128-Core Processor Challenges Intel and AMD in a Cloud-Based Processor Showdown - News". www.allaboutcircuits.com. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ^ "Ampere's Arm Data Center Chips Come to Oracle Cloud". Data Center Knowledge. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ Martin, Dylan (2020-11-23). "The 10 Hottest Semiconductor Startups Of 2020". CRN. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ Cutress, Ian. "Ampere eMAG in the Cloud: 32 Arm Core Instance for $1/hr". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Living he Arm Server Dream". www.packet.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2020. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ "Ampere Ships First Gen ARM Server Processors". WikiChip Fuse. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ a b Kennedy, Patrick (2020-03-03). "Ampere Altra Launched with 80 Arm Cores for the Cloud". ServeTheHome. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ a b c Cutress, Dr Ian. "Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere's Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ "Ampere Gears Up to Launch 7nm, 80-Core Arm Chip for Cloud Data Centers". Data Center Knowledge. 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2019-11-23.