Description
There is a growing number of choices beyond Intel’s Xeon processors for cloud services and choice is good. Numerous Arm server vendors are entering or are established in the server market. In addition, Amazon has developed its own Arm-based server chip called Graviton. The advantages of Arm compatible cores are lower power per core, more cores per area, design flexibility to build custom versions, and an established software ecosystem. One leading Arm server company is Ampere Computing. Ampere Computing is led by CEO Renee James, the former President of Intel, and leverages the many years of engineering talent from former AMD, Applied Micro, Cavium, Intel, and Qualcomm engineers. In addition to its deep expertise, Ampere offers some unique advantages in cloud servers – more cores, larger memory support, and better bandwidth.
