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Ampere Cloud Computing Solutions for Efficient and Scalable Performance
Company blog · amperecomputing.com/blogshardwaresystems
Ampere Cloud Computing Solutions for Efficient and Scalable Performance is the company blog at amperecomputing.com, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2018, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere ARM64 Servers in the Data Center”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this vendor site for Ampere Altra Arm server CPU product pages, tuning guides and partner system listings. The comments only link to it and do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Discover how Ampere's unique design delivers unmatched efficiency, meeting the growing demand for cloud computing while consuming minimal resources.
Most-linked posts?
- Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere ARM64 Servers in the Data Center2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-01
- SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5B2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-22
- Ampere Computing 2023 Strategy and Product Roadmap Update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-27
What Hacker News says?
Not Altera, Ampere Altra. This: https://amperecomputing.com/processors/ampere-altra/ If the purchase page says to "contact sales" and doesn't list a price then it is not for consumers.
Comment linking /processors/ampere-altra/
on “Apple M1 Ultra”Submitted SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5B as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAre they killing their products due to lack of demand (which seems odd, given the cost/benefit), too much competition from Amazon, running out of money vs. ramping up sales, or?? I just googled and it looks like the Ampere Altra is shipping in some rackmount configs? (Vaporware?) https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Rack-Server?fid=2326,222... https://www.avantek.co.uk/ such as https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altr…
Comment linking /reference-platforms/
on “Free Postgres databases for small projects”Submitted Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere ARM64 Servers in the Data Center as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDevOps Engineer | Ampere Computing | Portland, OR or Raleigh, NC (Remote Until COVID Ends) Ampere Computing is building world class data center (aarch64) CPUs and we’re looking for a talented engineer to join our team in a DevOps focused role. You’ll be working on building out our modern CI/CD and DevOps capabilities related to firmware development. You’ll work with GitLab pipelines, emulation environments, simulati…
Comment linking /apply/?p=job/oXOBdfwj
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Ampere: Making Future Software Memory-Safe, a Path Towards Secure Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTry Ampere: https://amperecomputing.com/ Ever since Cavium gave up Arm server products and pivoted to HPC, there hasn't been a real Arm compititor. Ampere is almost all ex-Intel.
Comment linking /
on “ARM Mac Impact on Intel”Submitted Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere ARM64 Servers in the Data Center as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAmpere Altra, for one: https://amperecomputing.com/altra/ , who advertise systems through partner firms: https://solutions.amperecomputing.com/systems/altra#system_2... Some benchmarks: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-re... , https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review Their chips are competitive with Graviton, as well as Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc.
Comment linking /altra/
on “Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?”Submitted Ampere’s Support for Open-Source Firmware [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA lot of people are ignoring the fact that SoftBank Group is also one of the largest players in the telco market globally (that's how they started) [0] and that played a role in their Arm strategy and Eutelsat OneWeb strategy. It's useful to look at the Ampere acquisition from the same lens, as Ampere is heavily used for telco usecases [1] SoftBank Group has heavily invested in O-RAN to act as the base technology fo…
Comment linking /press/ampere-accelerates-expansion-into-telecom
on “SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B”Submitted Ampere Computing IPO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes! Data workloads fare considerably better with larger pages, less TLB pressire, and a higher cache hit rate. I wrote a tutorial about this and how to figure out whether it will be a good trade-off for your use-case: https://amperecomputing.com/tuning-guides/understanding-memo...
Comment linking /tuning-guides/understanding-memory-page-sizes-on-arm64
on “Bought myself an Ampere Altra system”Submitted SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOk, we've changed to that from https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-industrys-first-80-... . Thanks!
Comment linking /ampere-altra-industrys-first-80-core-server-processor-unveiled/
on “Ampere Altra 80-core ARM CPU”Submitted AmpereOn CPU, with hardware memory tagging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNothing them is stopping GPC from buying Ampere servers and renting time on them. AWS made a great move in the space to get ahead of it, but there are totally viable commercial options: https://amperecomputing.com/
Comment linking /
on “AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks”Submitted Making Future Software Memory-Safe- a Path Towards Secure Cloud as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFoxconn, Gigabyte and Supermicro make Ampere Altra-based servers: https://amperecomputing.com/reference-platforms/ampere-altra...
Comment linking /reference-platforms/ampere-altra-platforms-for-modern-compute/
on “Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023”Submitted Ampere Computing 2023 Strategy and Product Roadmap Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAmpere looks particularly promising. Their first release is based on the AppliedMicro X-Gene 3 IP, which they acquired [0]. The first product is a 16nm chip with 32 ARMv8 cores @ 3.3GHz, with 8x 72-bit DDR4-2667 channels (with ECC), and 42 lanes of PCIe Gen 3, in a 125W TDP at a cost under $1000 [1]. They supposedly have a pretty aggressive roadmap, with 7nm parts available next year [2]. They have a pretty solid lo…
Comment linking /leadership-team/
on “Amazon's homegrown Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU”It's been around for a few years now, but probably still considered a startup: https://amperecomputing.com
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Chip startups?”It might be coming back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat... > we’re evaluating Ampere Altra for the new breeze of our Arm64 cloud instances in late 2020. — Scaleway
Comment linking /ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-native-processors-expands-to-128-cores-with-altra-max/
on “I love ARM”huh, they might be bringing ARM back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat...
Comment linking /ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-native-processors-expands-to-128-cores-with-altra-max/
on “I love ARM”https://amperecomputing.com/systems/altra/kraken-comhpc-WS
Comment linking /systems/altra/kraken-comhpc-WS
on “Cortex X2: ARM aims high”> There are no beefy 32-bit ARM servers. "Ampere processors natively support both 32 & 64 bit Android applications and require no binary translation for maximum instance density" ... "Run up to 120+ 3D cloud game instances per socket" ... "DRAM: 384GB - 512GB" https://amperecomputing.com/solutions/arm-native I've not personally tested this, but it very much appears that just like x86, you can use a 64-bit ARM kernel…
Comment linking /solutions/arm-native
on “Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?”Other useful links: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/18/ampere_shipping/ https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-announces-availability-of...
Comment linking /ampere-announces-availability-of-emag-for-hyperscale-cloud-computing-and-unveils-aggressive-multi-generation-roadmap/
on “Ampere 16nm ARM64 32 Core CPU Shipping [pdf]”
