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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: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:42PM
It's 64-bit and no slower than my olinuxinos, which are 32-bit. It didn't cost any more either.
But the hardware configuration was made with some very, very strange decisions, none contributing to speed.