You have probably heard about the Arm Event called Arm Everywhere that is happening tomorrow at 10 am. Arm’s CEO Rene Haas is speaking about their perspective on AI. I am assuming he will talking about it from the smallest edge chip to server ones like Ampere.
And you can live stream it on Arm Developers Discord.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the word Ampere was not mentioned once, in the whole presentation by any contributors?
You’re not wrong @rgfincher.
So still trying to work out where Ampere now fits into the overall aarch64 ecosystem.
Have just purchased my first Ampere AltraMax (128-core) server and put it into production.
Was planning to buy more of them in due course. Is the new ARM AGI CPU a branch off of the Ampere range, except with a new brand-name? I note that it uses Neoverse cores, which are similar to the Ampere Altra and AltraMax range of CPUs, not the ones in the AmpereOne® range which are a different aarch64 flavour.
From what I’ve seen publically, the Arm AGI CPU will have Arm Neoverse V3 cores, so is unrelated to the AmpereOne cores we have been developing in recent years. Ampere Altra cores were Neoverse N1 cores, a different branch of the Neoverse family.
Yep, Neoverse N1 in Altra favours density - i.e. lots of cores and just throw them at workloads to get the job done. The Neoverse V3 is vertical scale, more IPC, but a bigger footprint and power consumption per core.
AmpereOne is a fully Arm ISA 8.6 compatible core design that implements a lot of the features that you would find in Neoverse V3 SoCs but not the Scalar Vector Extensions in order to boost the core count and favour cloudy integer workloads.