Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon

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Ampere has already given a number of details away about Altra in an announcement late last year, however this time around we have concrete details and the company has performance projections. On the back of its first generation eMAG product, Ampere is looking to offer better-than-Graviton2 performance to any cloud provider or hyperscaler who isn’t called Amazon, given that Graviton2 is built by Amazon and only available to Amazon. In that regard, Ampere has taking Arm’s full recommendations for its N1 design, building a chip with the most number of cores that N1 is designed to support.

 

Source: Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon

EETimes – All Processing Bends Toward AI –

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“I brought this up because we began thinking about using this for place-and-route in ASIC design,” Dean said. “The game of place-and-route is far bigger than the game of go. The problem size is larger, though there isn’t as clear goal as there is with go.”

Google created a learning model for place-and-route, and then set out to find if the tool could generalize. Could it take what it learned on one design and apply it to a new design it had never seen before? The answer was an unambiguous “yes.”

Furthermore, Dean said, “We’ve gotten super-human results on all the blocks we’ve tried so far. It does a little bit better, and sometimes significantly better than humans.”

Source: EETimes – All Processing Bends Toward AI –