Ampere Computing
American fabless semiconductor company
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| March 19 2025 | SoftBank Group announced its plan to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion, with the deal set to close in the second half of 2025. Ampere will remain an independent subsidiary with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. |
| May 2024 | Ampere updated its AmpereOne roadmap to 256 cores and announced a collaborative effort with Qualcomm on developing CPUs and accelerators. |
| April 2023 | Ampere released the Altra developer's kit, an IoT Prototype Kit based on Ampere Altra processor, designed for cloud developers and available in 32-core, 64-core, and 80-core configurations. |
| 2022 | Ampere defined AmpereOne processor in their product roadmap for development. |
| August 2022 | Microsoft announced Ampere instances running in Azure. |
| July 2022 | Google announced T2A instances using Ampere Altra in the Google cloud. |
| June 28 2022 | HPE became the first tier-one server provider to offer compute with cloud-native silicon, launching HPE ProLiant RL Gen11 servers using Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors, providing high performance and power efficiency for service providers and enterprises. |
| May 2022 | Ampere announced sampling of AmpereOne CPUs, 5 nanometer chips developed in-house with support for DDR5 main memory and PCIe Gen5 peripherals. |
| April 2022 | Microsoft previewed Azure Virtual Machines running on Ampere Altra processors, capable of supporting various workloads including web servers, application servers, databases, cloud native applications, Java applications, gaming servers, and media servers. |
| April 2022 | Ampere filed a confidential prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling intent to go public. |
| February 2022 | Ampere Computing and Rigetti Computing announced a strategic partnership to create hybrid quantum-classical computers, combining Ampere's Altra Max CPUs with Rigetti's Quantum Processing Units (QPU) in cloud-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. |
| 2021 | Oracle launched its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Ampere Altra processors, marking a significant adoption of Ampere's cloud computing technology. |
| 2021 | Ampere Computing released the 128-core Altra Max processor, targeting hyperscale cloud providers with Arm v8.2+ cores, running up to 3.0 GHz, supporting eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory and 128 lanes of PCIe Gen4. |
| 2021 | Announced development of Ampere Altra Max processor as part of their product roadmap. |
| July 2021 | Ampere acquired OnSpecta, an AI technology startup, enabling four times faster acceleration on Ampere-based instances running AI-inference workloads. |
| May 2021 | Oracle, Microsoft, Tencent, and ByteDance commit to using Ampere's customized chips, first announced this month. |
| May 2021 | Ampere announced a partnership with Microsoft. |
| November 2020 | Ampere was named one of the top 10 hottest semiconductor startups by CRN. |
| September 2020 | Oracle announced plans to launch bare-metal and virtual machine instances based on Ampere Altra in early 2021. |
| March 2020 | Ampere announced a partnership with Oracle. |
| March 3 2020 | Ampere announced the Ampere Altra, a server-grade processor featuring 80 cores fabricated on TSMC's N7 process. The Q80-30 model is designed for hyperscale computing, running at 161 W, with semi-custom Arm Neoverse N1 cores modified by Ampere. The processor supports up to 3.3 GHz frequency, 250 W TDP, 4 TB DDR4-3200 per socket, and 128x PCIe 4.0 Lanes. |
| November 2019 | Nvidia announced a reference design platform for GPU-accelerated ARM-based servers including Ampere. |
| June 2019 | Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). |
| April 2019 | Ampere announced its second major investment round, which included investments from Arm Holdings and Oracle Corporation. |
| September 19 2018 | Ampere announced the availability of a revised eMAG 8180 processor version with 16x Skylark cores. |
| February 5 2018 | Ampere announced the eMAG 8180 processor featuring 32x Skylark cores, fabricated on TSMC's 16FF+ process, with up to 3.3 GHz turbo speed and 125 W TDP. |
| 2017 | Ampere Computing was founded by Renée James, ex-President of Intel, with funding from The Carlyle Group. James acquired a team from MACOM Technology Solutions and made several industry hires to start the company. |
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