Ampere Computing Intros AmpereOne CPUs: Up To 192 Cores, 8-Channel DDR5, 128 PCIe Gen5, 350W TDP

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Ampere Computing has revealed that the AmpereOne CPUs have begun production and sampling with customers. The company also gave more information about the proprietary Arm-based server processors during its strategy and roadmap update for 2023.

AmpereOne processors are extensively made for cloud servers, assisting service providers with a single solution to increase performance for the cloud. The Ampere Altra Max CPU, which is already available, offers 128 physical cores.

The AmpereOne cores, while custom, offer new abilities, such as Bfloat16, memory tagging, single-key encryption, secure virtualization, enhanced power management, & new improvements compared to the previous generations of Ampere Computing's CPUs, the Ampere Altra and Altra Max series.

The AmpereOne CPUs will be available in SKUs ranging from 136 to 192 core counts, with anything lower that was previously available from older generations will not be part of this line. The power consumption for the AmpereOne 192 core count chips is 350 W, with eight DDR5 memory channels similar to the current Intel Xeon Scalable processors but four channels less than the current AMD EPYC CPUs. Each core offers a 64 KB L1 four-way data cache, a 16KB instruction cache, and a 2 MB L2 cache.

For Virtual Machines (VMs), Ampere is recording 7296 VMs, close to three times the amount AMD offers and four times Intel's processors. Ampere Computing's benchmarks for artificial intelligence with Stable Diffusion and DLRM for AI show an increasingly large lead over AMD in queries and frames per second. However, these are claims made by the company, and we have not seen any outside testing completed.

Several companies have already positioned themselves as partners for the new processor, with