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on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:13PM
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Ampere, a new chip company run by former Intel president Renee James, came out of stealth today with a brand-new highly efficient Arm-based server chip targeted at hyperscale data centers.
The company's first chip is a custom core Armv8-A 64-bit server operating at up to 3.3 GHz with 1TB of memory at a power envelope of 125 watts. Although James was not ready to share pricing, she promised that the chip would offer unsurpassed price/performance that would exceed any high performance computing chip out there.
The company has a couple of other products in the works as well, which it will unveil in the future.
Source: TechCrunch
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:40PM (1 child)
This is a truism; I think the love of "management engine" type controls is of control-freak large IT departments in large organizations.
If I wanted to reboot remote computers, I would install a small singleboard computer that could electronically press the reset button. If I wanted to change their bios remotely, I don't know what I would do beyond hiring someone to trudge over there and poke through the BIOS, admittedly, but a technical solution I'd approve would definitely not involve malware buried deeper even than your average rootkit.
As usual, my requirements and desires do not sync with those of the market at large. And this time, even simple, proven knowledge like "no security in obscurity" isn't standing in the way.
I wish I could say this dogmatically, but I have some emotional need for speed. Perhaps I will grow out of it, but I doubt it.
A RISC V development board is $1000 and a basic RISC V workstation motherboard from Raptor/Talos is $2500 and up. My entire day-to-day workstation--a Ryzen R7-1700X system tricked out with SSDs and 24GB RAM--cost less than either of these boards alone.
I did source my small-board systems based on the criteria of "no-binary-blobs*", "must-run-unmodified-free-software*," and ended up buying the NanoPC T3 and two Olimex Olinuxino Lime 2 boards. (The Olinuxinos boot and run with no binary blob but the free driver for their GPU is only rudimentary. That was fine with me as I run them headless anyway.)
If I won the (sweepstakes|lottery|etc) I'd ditch the Ryzen for one of those Talos boards when/if they ever come available.
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* Both criteria that the inexplicably popular "raspberry pi" series of devices fail to meet.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday February 08 2018, @12:53AM
I have no idea why I said that. Raptor/Talos is a Power 9, *not* a "RISC V". Got that stuck in my head thinking about the little development board, I guess.