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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:21PM (#634547)

    I'm guessing that the problem is that your cores are starved.

    • Your software (Linux scheduler, individual programs, etc.) isn't using multiple cores optimally.

    • The hardware (cache layout, busses, storage devices) isn't supply the cores with data optimally.

    You can do a lot with 1 core at 1.4 Ghz; you can do a lot more with 8 of them.

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:44PM

    by requerdanos (5997) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @08:44PM (#634559) Journal

    The hardware (cache layout, busses, storage devices) isn't supply the cores with data optimally.

    This is definitely a problem with this board.