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Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU

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Re: Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU

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Post by abbeyj »

trsohmers wrote: post #6
my123 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not sure why you bring up NVIDIA, unless you don’t know that the ARM acquisition was cancelled.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/taiwans-tech-titans-adopt...

Re: Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU

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Post by moondev »

MarkovChain242 wrote: post #2

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…

FWIW: https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-servers.html

Re: Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU

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Post by bhouston »

funstuff007 wrote: post #15

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.

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.

Re: Ampere Announces 5nm Arm Server CPU

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Post by funstuff007 »

bhouston wrote: post #17
funstuff007 wrote: post #15

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.

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.

> require in house expertise to maintain the infrastructure

much less than companies spend on keeping all the Windows boxes running to keep Excel running.

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