Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU

Amazon on Thursday unveiled Graviton5, its densest, highest performance CPU yet, cramming 192 processor cores into a single socket and promising new levels of AWS performance. Since they first launched in 2018, the Graviton chips have become a mainstay of AWS's compute offering. For the past three years running, Amazon claims …

[Denarius]

old is gnu again

all those vendor specific CPUs for vendors OS that died with rise of Intel and AMD. SPARC, Alpha, HPs offerings, Motorolas. Now muliple vendor chips are back, just for use internally. Is it Intels turn to be one with the snows of yesteryear ?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: old is gnu again

Well if a Tea Shop can have it's own computer design I don't see why a book shop shouldn't

[45RPM]

Oracle did have its own silicon, albeit adopted, until 2017. But they killed it. And that’s why oracle can’t be trusted to have nice things. They’re the digital equivalent of Sid from Toy Story.

[Mikel]

384 cores per node?

Ah, back in the day that was a few racks.

[Fizzypo]

Graviton sign of amd failure

Amazon gave AMD money to make them a ArM CPU which was not up to spec , after waisting all that money Amazon decided to do it themselves. AMD are at high core counts now, there small cores try to close the gap to ARM but the horse has bolted.

[Fizzypo]

Graviton sign of amd failure

Gravatron only exists because AMD failed to deliver. Amazon paid AMD for a custom ARM CPU for there own needs. After falling to deliver Amazon decided to do it themselves. hence Gravatron was born.