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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
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 07 2018, @09:07PM
Does this thing have anything equivalent to Intel ME on it? Because if so, hard pass. If not...well, Linux runs on ARM :) Might make an interesting home desktop machine around ~2020
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