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Former Intel President Launches New Chip Company With Backing From Carlyle Group

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-they-have-barbeque-flavor? dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday February 08 2018, @10:05AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday February 08 2018, @10:05AM (#634801) Journal
    Uh, no. The BBC Micro (and Acorn's other early computers) used a 6502, not a Z80. When Acorn looked for a 16-bit replacement, they didn't like many of the options. They looked at the Berkeley RISC project and saw that a team of half a dozen people using modern VLSI techniques could produce a chip that was performance competitive with ones sourced from larger companies and decided to try it. Their chip ended up being very power efficient as a result of its simplicity and so Apple became interested in using it for the Newton, but didn't want to buy chips from a direct competitor, so Apple, Acorn and VLSI Technology spun out ARM as a separate company that would sell to both Apple and Acorn (and, quite soon, lots of other companies), initially with VLSI Technology doing all of the fabrication. The chips were made in the US from the start, though they were designed in the UK. The fabrication gradually moved to Asia, but most of the design remains in the UK (though there's also a big team in Austin that does quite a lot).
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