Ampere Heads Off Intel, AMD's Cloud-Optimized Cpus With A 192-Core ARM Chip
The Register, Wednesday, May 17,2023
What's better than 128 cores? 192 of course, or that's the bet Ampere is making with the launch of its next-generation Arm datacenter processors this week.
Since breaking into the datacenter CPU market in 2020 with the launch of its 80-core Ampere Altra parts, the company's strategy of packing a ton of relatively small, efficient Arm cores into a single socket has paid dividends. Today, nearly every major cloud provider, with the exception of Amazon of course, has put Ampere's cores to work in their clouds.
With the launch of its 192-core Ampere One processor family this week, Ampere hopes to cement its hard-won cloud foothold, even as Intel and AMD circle like buzzards with their own core-optimized parts.
So what has Ampere brought to the table this time?