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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Ampere Computing was founded in the Fall of 2017 by Renée James,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> ex-President of Intel, with funding from <a href="/facts/The_Carlyle_Group/gTPw8a9I">The Carlyle Group</a>. James acquired a team from <a href="/facts/MACOM_Technology_Solutions/T4YVIctS">MACOM Technology Solutions</a> (formerly <a href="/facts/AppliedMicro/c1GRDE6F">AppliedMicro</a>) in addition to several industry hires to start the company.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> Ampere Computing is an <a href="/facts/ARM_architecture_family/SALsYA79">ARM architecture</a> licensee and develops its own server microprocessors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> Ampere fabricates its products at <a href="/facts/TSMC/B4BdojRk">TSMC</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p>In April 2019, Ampere announced its second major investment round, including investment from <a href="/facts/Arm_Holdings/jqqppj7b">Arm Holdings</a> and <a href="/facts/Oracle_Corporation/0z14FygH">Oracle Corporation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> In June 2019, <a href="/facts/Nvidia/8QfCgqbu">Nvidia</a> announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for <a href="/facts/CUDA/fvPpolot">Compute Unified Device Architecture</a> (CUDA).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> In November 2019, Nvidia announced a reference design platform for <a href="/facts/Graphics_processing_unit/PTK1RQVp">graphics processing unit (GPU)</a>-accelerated ARM-based servers including Ampere.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> </p><p>In the first half of 2020, Ampere announced Ampere Altra an 80-core and Ampere Altra Max a 128-core processor without the use of simultaneous multithreading.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> </p><p>In March 2020, the company announced a partnership with Oracle.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> In September of that year, Oracle said it would launch bare-metal and <a href="/facts/Virtual_machine/BLevU3sx">virtual machine</a> instances in early 2021 based on Ampere Altra.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> </p><p>In November 2020, Ampere was named one of the top 10 hottest semiconductor startups by <i><a href="/facts/CRN_(magazine)/TJGvUMB7">CRN</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> </p><p>In May 2021, the company announced a partnership with <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> In July of that year, Ampere acquired OnSpecta, an AI technology startup.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> After the acquisition, the companies were able to demonstrate four times faster acceleration on Ampere-based instances running AI-inference workloads. </p><p>In April 2022, Ampere said that it had filed a confidential prospectus with the <a href="/facts/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission/IM9Pl2gK">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</a>, signaling its intent to go <a href="/facts/Initial_public_offering/2NntDhrG">public</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> </p><p>In June 2022, <a href="/facts/Hewlett_Packard_Enterprise/d9NbClDt">HPE</a> announced their Gen11 ProLiant system would use Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max Cloud Native Processors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> </p><p>In July 2022, Google announced T2A instances using Ampere Altra in the Google cloud and in August 2022 Microsoft announced their instances of Ampere running in Azure.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> </p><p>On March 19, 2025, Japanese company <a href="/facts/SoftBank_Group/rTPGcTJt">SoftBank Group</a> announced it will acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion. The deal is set to close in the second half of 2025. Ampere will remain an independent subsidiary with its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="products">Products</h2> <p>Ampere develops ARM-based <a href="/facts/Computer_processor/Jxp1bqMV">computer processors</a> and CPU cores under their Altra brands.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> These are used in databases, media encoding, web services, network acceleration, mobile gaming, AI inference processing, and other applications and programs that need to scale.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> </p><p>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 a TDP of 125 W, 8ch 64-bit <a href="/facts/DDR4_SDRAM/70r37baX">DDR4</a>, up to 1 TB <a href="/facts/DDR4_SDRAM/70r37baX">DDR4</a> per socket, and 42x <a href="/facts/PCI_Express/ADhsLCUK">PCIe 3.0</a> Lanes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> The Skylark cores were based on <a href="/facts/AppliedMicro/c1GRDE6F">AppliedMicro's</a> <a href="/facts/X-Gene_(microarchitecture)/TXgfk7hk">X-Gene 3</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> Packet offers servers with the eMAG 8180 and 128 GB DRAM, 480 GB SSD, and 2x 10 Gbit/s networking.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> On September 19, 2018, Ampere announced the availability of a version featuring 16x Skylark cores.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> </p> <h3>2020</h3> <p>On March 3, 2020, Ampere announced the Ampere Altra featuring 80 cores fabricated on TSMC's N7 process for hyperscale computing.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> It was the first server-grade processor to include 80 cores and the Q80-30 conserves power by running at 161 W in use.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a> The cores are semi-custom <a href="/facts/Arm_Neoverse_N1/rY4dho7U">Arm Neoverse N1 cores</a> with Ampere modifications.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a> It supports a frequency of up to 3.3 GHz with TDP of 250 W, 8ch 72-bit DDR4, up to 4 TB DDR4-3200 per socket, 128x <a href="/facts/PCI_Express/ADhsLCUK">PCIe 4.0</a> Lanes, 1 MB <a href="/facts/L2-Cache/x8BYFcdv">L2</a> per core and 32 MB SLC.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a> </p><p>Ampere also announced their roadmap with Ampere Altra Max (2021) in development and AmpereOne (2022) defined.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a> </p> <h3>2021</h3> <p>The 128-core Altra Max was released in 2021 and targeted hyperscale cloud providers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a> It uses the same server socket and platforms as Ampere Altra, and both products have one thread per core.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a> The Altra Max CPUs provide 128 Arm v8.2+ cores per chip and run up to 3.0 GHz. They also support eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory and 128 lanes of PCIe Gen4.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a> </p><p>Also in 2021, Oracle launched its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Ampere Altra processors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45"><sup>45</sup></a> </p> <h3>2022</h3> <p>In February 2022, Ampere and Rigetti Computing announced a strategic partnership to create hybrid quantum-classical computers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46"><sup>46</sup></a> The companies will combine Ampere's Altra Max CPUs with Rigetti's Quantum Processing Units (QPU) in cloud-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47"><sup>47</sup></a> </p><p>In April, Microsoft previewed its Azure Virtual Machines running on the Ampere Altra.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48"><sup>48</sup></a> The VMs run scale-out workloads, web servers, application servers, open source databases, cloud native .NET applications, Java applications, gaming servers, media servers, and other processes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49"><sup>49</sup></a> </p><p>In May, Ampere announced the sampling of AmpereOne CPUs, 5 nanometer chips based on its in-house Ampere-developed core.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50"><sup>50</sup></a> AmpereOne will add support for DDR5 main memory and PCIe Gen5 peripherals.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51"><sup>51</sup></a> </p><p>On June 28, 2022, HPE became first tier-one server provider to offer compute with optimized cloud-native silicon for service providers and enterprises embracing cloud-native development with new line of HPE ProLiant RL Gen11 servers, using Ampere® Altra® and Ampere® Altra® Max processors, delivering high performance and power efficiency. </p> <h3>2023</h3> <p>During April 2023, Ampere released the <i>Altra developer's kit,</i> an IoT Prototype Kit based on Ampere Altra, aimed at cloud developers, available in 32-core, 64-core, and 80-core formats.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52"><sup>52</sup></a> </p> <h3>2024</h3> <p>In May 2024, Ampere updated its AmpereOne roadmap to 256 cores <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53"><sup>53</sup></a> and announced a joint effort with Qualcomm on CPUs and accelerators.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54"><sup>54</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="customers">Customers</h2> <p>Ampere's customers include <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Azure/CCnIHTHd">Microsoft Azure</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55"><sup>55</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Tencent_Cloud/JNcjUq4H">Tencent Cloud</a>, <a href="/facts/Oracle_Corporation/0z14FygH">Oracle</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56"><sup>56</sup></a> <a href="/facts/ByteDance/QWfLuqXB">ByteDance</a>, <a href="/facts/Hewlett_Packard_Enterprise/d9NbClDt">Hewlett Packard Enterprise</a> (HPE),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57"><sup>57</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Cloudflare/CmQr5dy4">Cloudflare</a>, <a href="/facts/Equinix/ocAN0eNz">Equinix</a>, Kingsoft Cloud, <a href="/facts/Meituan/KLzUBTAx">Meituan</a>, <a href="/facts/Scaleway/6MCA7X9l">Scaleway</a>, UCloud, <a href="/facts/Foxconn_Industrial_Internet/0fMMlAbu">Foxconn Industrial Internet</a>, <a href="/facts/Gigabyte/s2hb2SEg">Gigabyte</a>, <a href="/facts/Inspur/FKT3kYvc">Inspur</a>, <a href="/facts/Cruise_(autonomous_vehicle)/2dU6bCzy">Cruise</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58"><sup>58</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Hetzner/hRrQuKGN">Hetzner</a>, Project Ronin,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59"><sup>59</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Wiwynn/Mz7dke7m">Wiwynn</a> and <a href="/facts/Google_Cloud_Platform/lPTNk7l6">Google Cloud Platform</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60"><sup>60</sup></a> </p><p>Cruise uses an Ampere Altra variant for its autonomous driving unit. The CPU was selected because of its throughput and low power consumption.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61"><sup>61</sup></a> </p><p>In 2021, Oracle, Microsoft, Tencent, and ByteDance committed to using Ampere's customized chips, first announced in May.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62"><sup>62</sup></a> In April 2022, Microsoft previewed Ampere Altra processors in its new Azure D-and E- series virtual machines.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63"><sup>63</sup></a> The Dpsv5 series is built for Linux enterprise application types, and the Epsv5 series is for memory-intensive Linux workloads.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:64" href="#fn:64"><sup>64</sup></a> They provide up to 64 vCPUs, include VM sizes with 2GiB, 4GiB, and 8GiB per vCPU memory configurations, up to 40 Gbit/s networking, and high-performance local SSD storage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:65" href="#fn:65"><sup>65</sup></a> </p><p>In 2022, Microsoft's Ampere Altra-based Azure servers became the first cloud solution provider server to be Arm <a href="/facts/ARM_architecture_family/SALsYA79">SystemReady</a> SR certified.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:66" href="#fn:66"><sup>66</sup></a> The Azure VMs, powered by Altra processors, were also the first to be SystemReady Virtual Environment standard certified. 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