Ampere
Asus this week has become the latest PC video card manufacturer to announce a sub-75W video card based on NVIDIA's recently-released low-power GeForce RTX 3050 6GB design. And going one step further for small form factor PC owners, Asus has used NVIDIA's low-power GPU configuration to produce a half-height video card that can fit into low-profile systems. As Asus puts it, the GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6GB GDDR6 is a 'big productivity in a small package' and for a low-profile dual-slot graphics board, it indeed is. The unit has three display outputs, including a DVI-D, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 1.4a with HDCP 2.3 support, which makes the graphics card s viable option both for a a dual-display desktop and a home theater PC (Nvidia's...
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: NVIDIA A100 Performance (5:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Update: NVIDIA Teases GeForce Presentation For September 1st - Ampere Inbound?
Update 8/11: A day later, NVIDIA has published a bit more information, clarifying their product teasing and announcement plans. It looks like NVIDIA's Twitter feed jumped the gun a...
49 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2020
GIGABYTE Updates 4-GPU 2U G242 Server with Rome and PCIe4 for Ampere
As we wait for the big server juggernaut to support PCIe 4.0, a number of OEMs are busy creating AMD EPYC versions to fill that demand for high-speed connectivity...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/6/2020
Ampere Altra 1P Server Pictured: GIGABYTE’s 2U with 80 Arm N1 Cores, PCIe 4.0 and CCIX
With the news of Apple moving to Arm SoCs replacing Intel in a few key products, and the success of the new Graviton2 SoC in Amazon’s Web Services, the...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/3/2020
Ampere’s Product List: 80 Cores, up to 3.3 GHz at 250 W; 128 Core in Q4
With the advent of higher performance Arm based cloud computing, a lot of focus is being put on what the various competitors can do in this space. We’ve covered...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/23/2020
NVIDIA Announces PCIe A100 Accelerator: 250 Watt Ampere In A Standard Form Factor
With the launch of their Ampere architecture and new A100 accelerator barely a month behind them, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the PCIe version of their accelerator as part...
30 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020
Avantek's Arm Workstation: Ampere eMAG 8180 32-core Arm64 Review
Arm desktop systems are quite a rarity. In fact, it’s quite an issue for the general Arm software ecosystem in terms of having appropriate hardware for developers to actually...
38 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/22/2020
NVIDIA Ampere Unleashed: NVIDIA Announces New GPU Architecture, A100 GPU, and Accelerator
While NVIDIA’s usual presentation efforts for the year were dashed by the current coronavirus outbreak, the company’s march towards developing and releasing newer products has continued unabated. To that...
128 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2020
Nvidia Announces New Drive Platforms With Orin and Ampere
Nvidia’s Orin SoC chipset had been on Nvidia’s roadmaps for over 2 years now, and last December we got the first new details of the new automotive oriented silicon...
37 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/14/2020
Arm Development For The Office: Unboxing an Ampere eMag Workstation
One of the key elements I’ve always found frustrating with basic software development is that it can often be quite difficult to actually get the hardware in hand you...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/22/2020
Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon
Several years ago, at a local event detailing a new Arm microarchitecture core, I recall a conversation I had with a number of executives at the time: the goal...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/3/2020
80-Core N1 Next-Gen Ampere, ‘QuickSilver’: The Anti-Graviton2
The drive to putting Arm into the server space has had its ups and downs. We’ve seen the likes of Applied Micro/Ampere, Broadcom/Cavium/Marvell, Qualcomm, Huawei, Fujitsu, Annapurna/Amazon, and even...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/23/2019
Arm Server CPUs: You Can Now Buy Ampere’s eMAG in a Workstation
One of the critical elements to all these new server-class Arm processors is availability. We are not yet at the point where these chips are freely sold on the...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/6/2019
Ampere Computing: Arm is Now an Investor
The pipeline for Arm based server products has a few companies fighting for as much of the market as they can get – the server market is a big...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/15/2019
Ampere eMAG in the Cloud: 32 Arm Core Instance for $1/hr
One of the companies working to put Arm processors into the cloud is Ampere, and the proliferation of Arm in the cloud is continuing to grow. Cloud company Packet...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/29/2019
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