Ampere Computing Announces AmpereOne With Up to 192 Cores Per Socket

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ampere Computing Announces AmpereOne With Up to 192 Cores Per Socket

Ampere Computing announced this morning that their AmpereOne family of processors have entered production and provided additional details on these in-house designed Arm server processors.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampereone-192-cores

[Kjell]

But can it run Crysis?

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo/Error page 1

"As anticipated, AmpereOne moves from DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5.0"

They aren't on DDR6 and PCIe 6...so I think this should be to instead?

[Michael]

Michael

Typo/Error page 1

"As anticipated, AmpereOne moves from DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5.0"

They aren't on DDR6 and PCIe 6...so I think this should be to instead?

Whoops yeah, originally was going to write from DDR4 and PCIe gen 4 to 5, but alas didn't come out that way. Fixed, thanks.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

But can it run Crysis?

[edwaleni]

With the retreat by AMD for the EPYC Dense back from 192 to 128 cores due to 3nm capacity issues, there might be a brief window of opportunity here for Ampere.

FWIW: Ampere is part owned by NVidia and ARM. Has had a distribution agreement with Lenovo and is headed up by a former Intel executive.

[brucethemoose]

Mmm, still ARMv8... I dunno about that. v9 is a huge jump.

There isn't currently any AmpereOne processors planned for 128 cores or less currently covered by the Ampere Altra family. Presumably this is due to their big bet on aiming the new processors squarely for cloud service providers interested in maximizing VM density. I had inquired about the possibility of a lower core count AmpereOne developer processor or for those wanting less cores but interested in AmpereOne for BFloat16 or other new capabilities found with these new processors, but currently they don't have any products planned in this segment. In other words, go big or go home.

I bet they can't afford/justify a small die, even if they would like one. The upfront capital costs get bigger and bigger with each node shrink.

[tildearrow]

Apple keeps its monopoly...

[ezst036]

Are these only server chips, correct?

Got anything relevant for us desktop users? It would be nice if they stopped ignoring us.

[ryao]

Are these only server chips, correct?

Got anything relevant for us desktop users? It would be nice if they stopped ignoring us.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/07/arm-systemready-sr-certified-ampere-altra-developer-platform/

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