Ampere: Cloud biz buy-ins prove our Arm server CPUs are the real deal

After two years of claiming that its Arm-powered server processors provide better performance and efficiency for cloud applications than Intel or AMD's, Ampere Computing said real deployments by cloud providers and businesses are proving its chips are the real deal. The Silicon Valley startup held its Annual Strategy and …

[Anonymous Coward]

Comparisons

Using Intel's Ice Lake is a bit of a red herring since Intel is currently producing its successor, Sapphire Rapids (which is being used for the Aurora supercomputer) although there cloud optimized processor is still a ways out. It makes the comparisons a bit suspect.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Comparisons

Funny. I didn't think I could buy an Intel SR CPU yet. Where can I get one?

[Morten Bjoernsvik]

Real benchmarks please

Larger L1 and L2 caches and high core density and 5nm taping sound expensive. Price/performance benchmarks please. Arm risc may be easier to optimize than cisc, so it would be nice to see.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Real benchmarks please

Their market isn't about "price/performance", it is price/efficiency at a whole host of factors.

[Vikingforties]

Re: Real benchmarks please

Performance bit was done by Anandtech a while ago. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-review-pushing-it-to-128-cores-per-socket/4

The price part is variable given that these are generally for large volume purchase. What isn't as flexible are the power costs so performance efficiency is important.

[Aegrotatio]

Amazon Graviton?

What? No mention of AWS Graviton?

[Will Godfrey]

Certainly looks interesting

I never did really understand why, once they had multiple cores, Intel and AMD went down the shared cache, FPU, etc. avenue. It seems a no-brainer that it was liable to cause contention issues.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Certainly looks interesting

Well, not a no brainer. There was a 4-bit CPU from their ancient days running the AI decision maker. :)