The firm Ampere has presented a new CPU for servers and data centers that, according to the company itself, is specially optimized for tasks related to the Cloud Computing. The AmpereOne Syrin is an interesting solution both for its configuration and its design, since it uses the ARM architecture, to which it applies its own customization layer, and mounts a chiplet-type design.
We might think that its 192 cores are divided into different packages, but nothing is further from reality. all those cores occupy a single chiplet, and are built on TSMC’s 5nm nodewhich means that we are dealing with one of the most advanced processors in its class, and thanks to its 3 GHz peak frequency it should also be one of the most powerful.
I know what you’re thinking, so where is the chiplet design for this new processor from Ampere? Well, very simple, in the rest of the components that it integrates, such as the memory controllers and the I/O subsystem, which are integrated in separate chiplets. I am sure that this will remind you, in part, of the design that AMD uses in its EPYC series, although this one does divide the cores into different chiplets, and each of them has 8 cores.
The AmpereOne Syrin can have up to 192 cores, but is also available in 128, 136, 144 and 160 core configurations. By offering different amounts of cores, the company can reach a larger number of companies with this processor, and can meet their needs optimally, without falling into oversized models.
Each core can work with one thread, it has 2 MB of its own L2 cache, and as we have said it can work at 3 GHz. That frequency is stable. This new generation of processors supports configurations of DDR5 in 8 channelsoffer up 128 PCIe Gen5 lanes, and have a TDP between 200 and 350 watts, depending on the total number of cores.
As might be expected, they also have other important security functions that are key if we talk about cloud computing, such as memory address labeling in each virtual machine and data encryption in memory with a unique key, as well as others focused on offering a secure virtualization.
An interesting and quite competitive solution that will try to make its way in a very difficult market. As we told you a few days ago, the first Ampere Computing processors have been more than acceptable, so much so that in just one year they went from not having any presence in the sector to seize 1.52% of it.
