Ampere Computing Unveils New AmpereOne Processor Family with 192 Custom Cores

Ampere Computing  announced a new AmpereOne Family of processors with up to 192 single threaded Ampere cores the highest core count in the industry. This is the first product from Ampere based on the company’s new custom core, built from the ground up and leveraging the company’s internal IP.

CEO Renée James, who founded Ampere Computing to offer a modern alternative to the industry with processors designed specifically for both efficiency and performance in the Cloud, said there was a fundamental shift happening that required a new approach.

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“Every few decades of compute there has emerged a driving application or use of performance that sets a new bar of what is required of performance,” James said. “The current driving uses are AI and connected everything combined with our continued use and desire for streaming media. We cannot continue to use power as a proxy for performance in the data center.  At Ampere, we design our products to maximize performance at a sustainable power, so we can continue to drive the future of the industry.”

Ampere, which created the Cloud Native Processor category with its Ampere Altra and AmpereAltra Max processors, has remained intensely focused on fulfilling a commitment to deliver a predictable and rapid cadence of products that lead the market in performance and efficiency. Today, the company introduced its newest family of Ampere core-based products, AmpereOne, to take efficient, performance computing further than it has gone before.

With AmpereOne, the company is broadening its portfolio while delivering further gains in performance, scalability and efficiency. Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max will continue to serve the Cloud along with other key segments that need the highest performance at the lowest power.

“AmpereOne is about more. More cores, more IO, more memory, more performance, more cloud features,” said Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer at Ampere. “With our Ampere Custom Cloud Native Cores, this is the next step in the break from the constraints of legacy compute. No other CPU comes close. It is about cloud scale with the maximum performance per rack.”

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AmpereOne is built from the ground up with 192 custom designed Ampere cores, large cloud-optimized private caches, and new cloud features aimed at high-growth cloud usages like AI. These features, such as Mesh Congestion Management, Fine Grained Power Management and Memory Tagging also improve performance consistency, manageability and security for high performance, highly utilized multi-user environments like the cloud. The entire platform is scaled with the addition of eight channels of DDR5 memory and 128 lanes of PCIe Gen5 IO. The processor is being manufactured on the 5nm process node.

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