Ampere Computing

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Ampere Computing LLC
AMPERE
Private
Industry Semiconductors
Founded February 2018; 6 years ago (2018-02)
Founder Renée James
Headquarters Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
  • Renée James, (Chairman and CEO)
  • Todd Underwood (CFO)
  • Atiq Bajwa (Chief Architect)
Products Integrated circuits, Microprocessors
Number of employees
 800 (2021[1])
Website amperecomputing.com

Ampere Computing LLC is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California that develops cloud native ARM-based computer processors for servers.[2][3] Ampere also has offices in: Portland, Oregon; Taipei, Taiwan;[4] Raleigh, North Carolina; Bangalore, India;[4] and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[5]

History

Ampere Computing was founded by Renée James after The Carlyle Group acquired AppliedMicro's X-Gene intellectual property, assets and architectural license from MACOM Technology Solutions.[6][7][8]

In September 2018, Ampere announced a partnership with Lenovo, with Lenovo releasing 1U and 2U platforms with Ampere eMAG.[9]

In March 2019, bare metal cloud service provider Packet announced their c2.large.arm configuration featuring Ampere's eMAG 8180.[10] In April 2019, Ampere announced their second major investment round, including investment from Arm Holdings and Oracle Corporation.[11][12] In June 2019, Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).[13] In November 2019, Nvidia announced a reference design platform for graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated ARM-based servers including Ampere eMAG.[14]

In the first half of 2020, Ampere announced Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max, a cloud native processor.[3]

In March 2020, the company announced a partnership with Oracle.[15] In September of that year, Oracle said it would launch bare-metal and virtual machine instances in early 2021 based on Ampere Altra.[16]

In November 2020, Ampere was named one of the top 10 hottest semiconductor startups.[17]

In May 2021, the company announced a partnership with Microsoft.[18]

In June 2022, HPE announced their Gen11 ProLiant system would use Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max Cloud Native Processors.[19]

Products

Ampere develops cloud native ARM-based computer processors and CPU cores under their Altra brands.[3]

On February 5, 2018, Ampere announced the eMAG 8180 featuring 32x Skylark cores fabricated on TSMC’s 16FF+ process. It supports a turbo of up to 3.3 GHz with a TDP of 125 W, 8ch 64-bit DDR4, up to 1TB DDR4 per socket, and 42x PCIe 3.0 Lanes.[8] The Skylark cores were based on AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3.[8][20] Packet offers servers with the eMAG 8180 and 128 GB DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and 2x 10 Gbit/s networking.[21] On September 19, 2018, Ampere announced the availability of a version featuring 16x Skylark cores.[22]

On March 3, 2020, Ampere announced the Ampere Altra featuring 80x Quicksilver cores fabricated on TSMC's N7 process.[23][24] The Quicksilver cores are semi-custom Arm Neoverse N1 cores with Ampere modifications.[25] It supports a frequency of up to 3.3 GHz with TDP of 250 W, 8ch 72-bit DDR4, up to 4TB DDR4 per socket, 128x PCIe 4.0 Lanes, 1MB L2 per core and 32MB SLC.[23][24]

Ampere also announced their roadmap with Ampere Altra Max (2021) in development and AmpereOne Siryn (2022) defined. Ampere Altra Max will use the same socket as Ampere Altra.[24]

On June 28, 2022, HPE became first tier-one server provider to offer compute with optimized cloud-native silicon for service providers and enterprises embracing cloud-native development with new line of HPE ProLiant RL Gen11 servers, using Ampere® Altra® and Ampere® Altra® Max processors, delivering high performance and power efficiency.

Customers

Oracle,[26] Microsoft Azure[27] and Google Cloud Platform[28] offer Ampere Altra processors on their respective cloud platforms.

See also

References

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