Ampere Computing


Ampere Computing is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California that develops ARM-based computer processors. Ampere also has offices in Portland, Oregon, Taipei, Taiwan, Raleigh, North Carolina, Bangalore, India and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

History

In October 2017, Ampere Computing was founded by Renée James after The Carlyle Group acquired AppliedMicro's X-Gene 3 IP and assets from MACOM.
In April 2018, Ampere joined the Green Computing Consortium as a Platinum Member, and Renée James was named as the vice chair of the GCC. In September 2018, Ampere announced a partnership with Lenovo, with Lenovo releasing 1U and 2U platforms with Ampere eMAG.
In March 2019, Packet announced their c2.large.arm configuration featuring Ampere's eMAG 8180. In April 2019, Ampere announced their second major investment round, including investment from Arm Holdings and Oracle Corporation. In June 2019, Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for CUDA. In November 2019, Nvidia announced reference design platform for GPU-accelerated Arm-based servers including Ampere eMAG.

Products

Ampere develops ARM-based computer processors for under their eMAG brand.
On February 5, 2018, Ampere announced the eMAG 8180 featuring 32x Skylark cores fabricated on TSMC’s 16FF+ process. It supports a turbo of up to 3.3 GHz with TDP of 125 W, 8ch 64-bit DDR4, up to 1TB DDR4 per socket, and 42x PCIe 3.0 Lanes. Packet offers servers with the eMAG 8180 and 128 GB DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and 2x 10 Gbit/s networking. On September 19, 2018, Ampere announced availability of a version featuring 16x Skylark cores.
On March 3, 2020, Ampere announced the Ampere Altra featuring 80x Quicksilver cores fabricated on TSMC's N7 process. The Quicksilver cores are semi-custom Arm Neoverse N1 cores with Ampere modifications. It supports a turbo of up to 3.0 GHz with TDP of 210 W, 8ch 72-bit DDR4, up to 4TB DDR4 per socket, 128x PCIe 4.0 Lanes, 1MB L2 per core and 32MB SLC. Ampere also announced their roadmap with Mystique in development and Siryn defined. Mystique will use the same socket as Altra.