[HN Gopher] Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU AmpereOne ___________________________________________________________________ Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU AmpereOne Author : ksec Score : 44 points Date : 2022-05-28 16:58 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.servethehome.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.servethehome.com) | tomatowurst wrote: | I would like to try out Ampere servers but unfortunately Oracle | seems out of stock after the free tier promotion | funstuff007 wrote: | If Ampere ever became available, it would make sense for all | businesses to host non-realtime work loads on-prem. You might not | even notice a change in your electric bill. | bhouston wrote: | The internet speed and reliability would be poor and you would | require in house expertise to maintain the infrastructure even | if it is simple. I think it still makes sense to rent them from | providers. | funstuff007 wrote: | > require in house expertise to maintain the infrastructure | | much less than companies spend on keeping all the Windows | boxes running to keep Excel running. | MarkovChain242 wrote: | Yeah, I would love to be able to buy an ARM server (or a RISC-V | server), but so far that's just impossible. | | Let's just limit the discussion to Ampere. There is supposed to | be Gigabyte G242, with several SKUs, that supports an older | version of their chips. I've had extensive email discussions with | Gigabyte sales staff, and yet I've been unable to find a _single_ | reseller that will even backorder any version of the G242 for me. | And there 's even a G252 now. Lovely! | | Yes, there is a supply chain crisis. Yes, ordering novel products | is never easy, nor cheap. But, heck, do I understand why Intel | has a lock on the server market... | my123 wrote: | Small unit count availability is still problematic for now. | | For Ampere, there has been the AVA Developer Platform ($5450, | 32-core) recently: https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ava-developer- | platform but that's not a cheap solution. | | Given the history of NVIDIA, will be really interesting to see | what happens there too. | trsohmers wrote: | Not sure why you bring up NVIDIA, unless you don't know that | the ARM acquisition was cancelled. | abbeyj wrote: | https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/taiwans-tech-titans- | adopt... | happycube wrote: | They've got their own ARM server chip coming out anyhow. | machinekob wrote: | I think we are lock out cause of gigant-scalers (cloud | providers) and labs maybe in few years we can get some cool ARM | servers for cheap :P. | 41b696ef1113 wrote: | Do Microsoft/Amazon/Google sell their retired cloud hardware? | happycube wrote: | Not AFAIK, but Amazon's been selling Graviton 1 to | Microtik. | kleton wrote: | They do, but only commodity parts like cpus | moondev wrote: | FWIW: https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-servers.html | ykl wrote: | Is there any word yet on if AmpereOne implements SVE (scalable | vector extensions)? | my123 wrote: | It does not. ARMv8.6 with PAC and MTE, but no SVE. | freemint wrote: | Sweet. I had a decent experience with the 80 core variant. | | I am a bit dubious about the many core in china explanation and | would rather explain it with lower cost. | jazzythom wrote: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-28 23:00 UTC)