Ampere Computing

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

Ampere Computing
TypePrivate
IndustrySemiconductors
FoundedOctober 2017 (2017-10)
FounderRenée James
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Renée James, (Chairman and CEO)
  • Chi Miller (CFO and COO)
  • Atiq Bajwa (Chief Architect)
ProductsIntegrated circuits, Microprocessors
Number of employees
250 (2018[1])
Websiteamperecomputing.com

History

In October 2017, Ampere Computing was founded by Renée James after The Carlyle Group acquired AppliedMicro's X-Gene IP, assets and architectural license from MACOM.[4][5][6]

In April 2018, Ampere joined the Green Computing Consortium (GCC) as a Platinum Member, and Renée James was named as the vice chair of the GCC.[7] In September 2018, Ampere announced a partnership with Lenovo, with Lenovo releasing 1U and 2U platforms with Ampere eMAG.[8]

In March 2019, Packet announced their c2.large.arm configuration featuring Ampere's eMAG 8180.[9] In April 2019, Ampere announced their second major investment round, including investment from Arm Holdings and Oracle Corporation.[10][11] In June 2019, Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for CUDA.[12] In November 2019, Nvidia announced reference design platform for GPU-accelerated Arm-based servers including Ampere eMAG.[13]

In the first half of 2020, Ampere announced Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max, a cloud native processor. [14]

In September 2020, Oracle said it would launch bare-metal and VM instances early next year based on Ampere Altra. [15]

In November 2020, Ampere was named  one of the top 10 hottest semiconductor startups. [16]

Products

Ampere develops ARM-based computer processors for under their eMAG and Altra brands.

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 TDP of 125 W, 8ch 64-bit DDR4, up to 1TB DDR4 per socket, and 42x PCIe 3.0 Lanes.[6] The Skylark cores were based on AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3.[6][17] Packet offers servers with the eMAG 8180 and 128 GB DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and 2x 10 Gbit/s networking.[18] On September 19, 2018, Ampere announced availability of a version featuring 16x Skylark cores.[19]

On March 3, 2020, Ampere announced the Ampere Altra featuring 80x Quicksilver cores fabricated on TSMC's N7 process.[20][21] The Quicksilver cores are semi-custom Arm Neoverse N1 cores with Ampere modifications.[22] It supports a max 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.[20][21]

Ampere also announced their roadmap with Altra Max (2021) in development and Siryn (2022) defined. Altra Max will use the same socket as Altra.[21]

See also

References
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  2. "About Us – Ampere Computing". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  3. "Contact – Ampere Computing". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  4. "Ampere Computing Holdings LLC | The Carlyle Group". www.carlyle.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
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  9. Ampere. "Ampere and Packet Partner to Expand Adoption of eMAG™ Processors for Next-Generation Cloud and Edge Workloads". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  10. Cutress, Ian. "Ampere Computing: Arm is Now an Investor". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  11. Levy, Ari (2019-09-27). "Oracle discloses $40 million stake in Ampere, a chip start-up founded by former Intel president Renee James". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  12. Newsroom, NVIDIA. "NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm, Enabling New Path to Exascale Supercomputing". NVIDIA Newsroom Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  13. Newsroom, NVIDIA. "NVIDIA and Tech Leaders Team to Build GPU-Accelerated Arm Servers for New Era of Diverse HPC Architectures". NVIDIA Newsroom Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  14. "Ampere's 128-Core Processor Challenges Intel and AMD in a Cloud-Based Processor Showdown - News". www.allaboutcircuits.com. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  15. "Ampere's Arm Data Center Chips Come to Oracle Cloud". Data Center Knowledge. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
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  17. Cutress, Ian. "Ampere eMAG in the Cloud: 32 Arm Core Instance for $1/hr". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
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  19. "Ampere Ships First Gen ARM Server Processors". WikiChip Fuse. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  20. Kennedy, Patrick (2020-03-03). "Ampere Altra Launched with 80 Arm Cores for the Cloud". ServeTheHome. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
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