Welcome to the Ampere developer newsletter, curated by our DevRel team.
Happy New Year!
This edition includes a review of the fastest ARM64 workstation, a case study about how ZEISS is using Wasm and Ampere chips to get better performance while using less energy, and a review on how developers can take advantage of hardware features in AmpereOne, and why they should care.
Ampere Developer Center
- Blog: Empowering Developers and Fueling AI Adoption with AmpereOne® Design Innovations - Ampere’s Dave Neary wrote a detailed blog covering AmpereOne features that were designed to enable AI adoption.
- Case Study: ZEISS Demonstrates the Power of Scalable Workflows with Ampere® Altra® and SpinKube dives into how ZEISS uses SpinKube running on Ampere to get better performance while using less energy.
- Video: CPU enforced Memory Tagging in AmpereOne processors
- Ampere Porting Advisor: This tool goes through your code to check if there are any compatibility issues.
- Ampere Performance ToolKit (APT): The APT is an open effort to define a canonical set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings.
From around the web
- YouTube: “System 76 accidentally built the fastest Windows Arm PC”: Jeff Geerling reviews the System 76 Ampere workstation that was designed for the automotive industry, but is the most powerful Arm64 PC.
- Arm Blog: “A New Game Changer for Arm Linux Development in Automotive Applications” talking about the System 76 system.
Insights & resources
- How Uber and Oracle are using Ampere: Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs
Events
- Config Management Camp: Feb 3-5, Ghent, BE. Dave Neary will be speaking on how to use ArgoCD for Continuous Delivery of cross-architecture cloud applications. Ampere is a Gold sponsor of the event this year, and we will be on site in HOGENT with our partner Exertis exhibiting an Ampere server, so please come and see us!
- Dev Nexus: March 4-6, Atlanta, GA. Dave Neary will present on “Boosting your Java Application Performance on Ampere arm64 servers”
- SCaLE: March 6-9, Pasadena, CA. Ampere will have a booth next to System76 – come check out their Ampere workstations.
Where are you going in the first quarter? Please let us know in the Community.
Ampere Community Info
In December, community submissions leaned a bit more technical.
We’d appreciate it if our community members would check out the questions, and chime in if you’re able to contribute to the threads.
Be sure to sign up for our dev forum - we love to see new members connect with our existing community.
Thanks for reading!
The Ampere DevRel team