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STH ServeTheHome Advertisement [INS::INS] STH STH * Forums * AI * Server + Server Systems + Server CPUs + Accelerators + Server Motherboards + Server Chassis + Other Components * 5G Edge * Storage * Networking * Workstation + Workstation Processors + Workstation Motherboards * Software + Operating Systems + Server Applications + Virtualization * Guides + Buyer's Guides + Tips + Top Hardware Components for FreeNAS NAS Servers + Top Hardware Components for pfSense Appliances + Top Hardware Components for napp-it and Solarish NAS Servers + Top Picks for Windows Server 2016 Essentials Hardware + The DIY WordPress Hosting Server Hardware Guide [ ][Search] Home Server Server CPUs Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU AmpereOne * Server * Server CPUs Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU AmpereOne By Patrick Kennedy - May 28, 2022 0 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Linkedin Email Print Renee James AmpereOneRenee James AmpereOne This week we had the brief announcement of a new CPU from Ampere, called AmpereOne. Ampere has been getting a lot of momentum as alternatives for Arm cloud processors for those who are not Amazon and who did not make their own chips. In the next generation, Ampere is moving from the Arm Neoverse cores to a custom-designed core. Ampere AmpereOne Just for some background, Ampere currently holds the title to the highest core count Arm CPu out there with the Ampere Altra Max at 128 cores. Both Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure are using Ampere's chips as their offerings to counter AWS Graviton3. Beyond the US cloud providers, Ampere has become extremely popular in China because of its core count. In China, there are large populations and so applications like mobile gaming that require a dedicated core per user see an immense benefit from dedicated cores instead of hyper-threading. They also tend not to use higher-end acceleration or need the huge caches of Milan-X. AMD EPYC 7003 Milan Ampere Altra Max Intel Xeon Ice Lake Front Close AMD EPYC 7003 Milan Ampere Altra Max Intel Xeon Ice Lake Front Close Intel is building high-performance cores, augmenting them with AI inference accelerators, crypto accelerators, and so forth. AMD is building chips with more cores and massive caches but are still focused on the maximum performance cores. Ampere is instead focused on these lower performance per core, but workloads that scale to higher core counts. Ampere Altra Max M128 30 Front CloseAmpere Altra Max M128 30 Front Close While its current generation is built upon Arm Neoverse cores, with the next generation Ampere is moving to its custom-designed cores. The new AmpereOne line will be a 5nm (presumably TSMC) line that incorporates DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 like Intel Sapphire Rapids and AMD Genoa. Still, we expect Ampere to focus on this cloud market where the focus is on the maximum core counts and where software license costs are less of a concern. Renee James Ampere AmpereOneRenee James Ampere AmpereOne At first, the new chip in Ampere's CEO's hands (Renee James) looked similar to the Ampere Altra Max. One can see though that the pads are different between the AmpereOne (above) and the Altra Max (below.) AMD EPYC 7003 Milan Ampere Altra Max Intel Xeon Ice Lake BackAMD EPYC 7003 Milan Ampere Altra Max Intel Xeon Ice Lake Back This is certainly an exciting development. What is more, and is important for the market, is really that the company is able to straddle a current Arm Neoverse "standard" core design as well as have a custom design. Ampere being able to have customers on both is a big deal as it is showing interoperability that has been the domain of x86 previously. Final Words We did not get a lot on AmpereOne, but it is coming and the company says it is sampling. Both AMD and Intel will respond to this segment of the market with Sierra Forrest and Bergamo, but Ampere should be launched before those solutions. The fact is that the x86 cores have focused so much on performance per core, largely due to per-core licensing costs that dwarf CPU hardware costs, that it has led to a window for a cloud-native processor segment designed to provide the correct level of performance per core tied to cloud vCPUs, but then offer massive numbers of cores. There are trade-offs, but they seem reasonable given the market size for that. [INS::INS] * TAGS * Ampere * Ampere Altra * AmpereOne * ARM Previous articleTwo Fanless Intel Celeron N5105 4x 2.5GbE Options Reviewed Patrick Kennedy https://www.servethehome.com Patrick has been running STH since 2009 and covers a wide variety of SME, SMB, and SOHO IT topics. Patrick is a consultant in the technology industry and has worked with numerous large hardware and storage vendors in the Silicon Valley. The goal of STH is simply to help users find some information about server, storage and networking, building blocks. 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