· Ampere? Altra?是可前后兼容的處理器產品組合，將最新推出業內首款擁有最多內核數量（128個）的系列產品—— Ampere? Altra Max?

· 為優化在特定工作負載下的性能、滿足不同客戶需求，Ampere 的云原生處理器系列推出了不同的產品

· 擁有128個內核的Ampere Altra Max與擁有80個內核的Ampere Altra處理器兼容

· Ampere將在2020年第四季度提供Altra Max樣品

中國，北京（2020年6月24日）— —安晟培半導體科技有限公司（Ampere Computing）今日公布了其 Ampere Altra處理器系列的未來發展規劃。今年3月，Ampere發布的“首款云原生處理器”Ampere Altra，擁有80個64位ARM 處理器內核。今天，Ampere披露了其云原生處理器系列產品的擴展成員Ampere Altra Max的初步信息，該產品將擁有128個內核，能夠為客戶提供優化的云計算處理器，實現單芯片整體性能以及機架內核部署密度的最大化。

采用Ampere Altra Max的應用將充分發揮橫向擴展和彈性云架構優勢。它兼容Ampere 80核的Altra處理器，并支持雙路服務器平臺。此外，它還將為行業帶來最高的插槽級性能和I/O可擴展性。預計將在今年的第四季度提供Altra Max樣品以及更多詳細內容。

Ampere 創始人兼首席執行官 Renee James（詹睿妮）女士表示：“我們在今年3月推出了業界首款云原生處理器——80核處理器 Ampere Altra。 今天，我們宣布擴展Ampere Altra產品系列，推出第一個128核處理器，并于第四季度提供樣品。我們深知需要推出不同的產品來滿足客戶的需求，并且能夠達到在特定工作負載下的最優性能。很高興與大家分享我們的快速進展，堅守我們的承諾，持續為客戶提供性能和能效處于業內領先的產品。”

Ampere近期完成了用于內部驗證的5nm測試芯片的流片，以實現每年提供新產品節奏的承諾。

Ampere Altra系列提供了解決各種工作負載的靈活性，并且Ampere正在與生態系統中的伙伴合作，以滿足客戶的特定需求。

此外，目前一些客戶已經開始提供基于Ampere Altra的平臺。

生態伙伴引語（原文）

“Cloudflare is deeply interested in the Ampere Altra processor and its innovative architecture. We have started evaluating Ampere Altra and are excited with the preliminary performance benchmarks we are seeing. We will share these performance metrics of Ampere Altra later in the year. Cloudflare is also excited to be engaged with Ampere on the Ampere Altra Max processor with 128 cores and can’t wait to test it. ”

Nitin Rao， Head of Global Infrastructure， Cloudflare.

“We are excited to announce GenyMotion has been ported to Ampere platforms. Customers who are using our cloud-based Android virtual devices demand scalability and the performance boost of running Arm native applications on an Arm-based server. It is exciting to see a high performant Arm server processor， Ampere Altra， available now. Ampere Altra enables unparalleled scalability and density to run our Android virtual devices on the cloud ”

Tim Danford， Chief Executive Officer， Genymobile.

“NVIDIA has moved quickly to bring its CUDA-X collection of libraries， tools， and technologies to deliver GPU acceleration to the thriving Arm ecosystem. We are happy to collaborate with Ampere and partners building reference designs that demonstrate the best combinations of GPU and CPU performance optimized for accelerated computing.”

Duncan Poole， Director of Platform Alliances， NVIDIA.

“We are excited to extend our partnership with Ampere by providing early access to their new Ampere Altra processors. Our shared passion for pushing the boundaries of performance for cloud-native applications is complemented by an equally deep commitment to engaging with the software ecosystem early and often. With this early access program our users， and the community at large， can experience what‘s next with silicon， today.”

Zac Smith， Managing Director of Bare Metal Packet， an Equinix Company.

“We are excited to offer Ampere products to our customers in the coming months. Adding the Ampere Altra processor and associated servers to our portfolio will enable Phoenics to provide our customers with key solutions for cloud， storage， edge and other server applications.”

Peter Rooks， President ， Phoenics Electronics， an Avnet Company.

“At Scaleway we strive to provide diversity of architectures tailored to meet the variety of cloud workloads our customers run. We were among the first to offer Arm and Arm64 based virtual instances and bare-metal systems in the cloud. The new Ampere Altra processor brings us a new world of performance on Arm64 architecture， and enables new cross usage in the cloud for all sizes of workloads. We are pleased to work closely with Ampere and are delighted to say that we’re evaluating Ampere Altra for the new breeze of our Arm64 cloud instances in late 2020.”

Scaleway.