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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: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday February 07 2018, @07:01PM
I am reminded of Qualcomm's new ARM chip for the datacenter, the Centriq 2400: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12025/qualcomm-launches-48core-centriq-for-1995-arm-servers-for-cloud-native-applications [anandtech.com]
However, the Centriq is 48 cores at 2.6Ghz, while this Ampere chip is 3.3Ghz with no comment on number of cores. Perhaps they are targeting different market segments.