[HN Gopher] Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU AmpereOne
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Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU AmpereOne
Author : ksec
Score : 44 points
Date : 2022-05-28 16:58 UTC (6 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.servethehome.com)
| tomatowurst wrote:
| I would like to try out Ampere servers but unfortunately Oracle
| seems out of stock after the free tier promotion
| funstuff007 wrote:
| If Ampere ever became available, it would make sense for all
| businesses to host non-realtime work loads on-prem. You might not
| even notice a change in your electric bill.
| bhouston wrote:
| The internet speed and reliability would be poor and you would
| require in house expertise to maintain the infrastructure even
| if it is simple. I think it still makes sense to rent them from
| providers.
| funstuff007 wrote:
| > require in house expertise to maintain the infrastructure
|
| much less than companies spend on keeping all the Windows
| boxes running to keep Excel running.
| MarkovChain242 wrote:
| Yeah, I would love to be able to buy an ARM server (or a RISC-V
| server), but so far that's just impossible.
|
| Let's just limit the discussion to Ampere. There is supposed to
| be Gigabyte G242, with several SKUs, that supports an older
| version of their chips. I've had extensive email discussions with
| Gigabyte sales staff, and yet I've been unable to find a _single_
| reseller that will even backorder any version of the G242 for me.
| And there 's even a G252 now. Lovely!
|
| Yes, there is a supply chain crisis. Yes, ordering novel products
| is never easy, nor cheap. But, heck, do I understand why Intel
| has a lock on the server market...
| my123 wrote:
| Small unit count availability is still problematic for now.
|
| For Ampere, there has been the AVA Developer Platform ($5450,
| 32-core) recently: https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ava-developer-
| platform but that's not a cheap solution.
|
| Given the history of NVIDIA, will be really interesting to see
| what happens there too.
| trsohmers wrote:
| Not sure why you bring up NVIDIA, unless you don't know that
| the ARM acquisition was cancelled.
| abbeyj wrote:
| https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/taiwans-tech-titans-
| adopt...
| happycube wrote:
| They've got their own ARM server chip coming out anyhow.
| machinekob wrote:
| I think we are lock out cause of gigant-scalers (cloud
| providers) and labs maybe in few years we can get some cool ARM
| servers for cheap :P.
| 41b696ef1113 wrote:
| Do Microsoft/Amazon/Google sell their retired cloud hardware?
| happycube wrote:
| Not AFAIK, but Amazon's been selling Graviton 1 to
| Microtik.
| kleton wrote:
| They do, but only commodity parts like cpus
| moondev wrote:
| FWIW: https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-servers.html
| ykl wrote:
| Is there any word yet on if AmpereOne implements SVE (scalable
| vector extensions)?
| my123 wrote:
| It does not. ARMv8.6 with PAC and MTE, but no SVE.
| freemint wrote:
| Sweet. I had a decent experience with the 80 core variant.
|
| I am a bit dubious about the many core in china explanation and
| would rather explain it with lower cost.
| jazzythom wrote:
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