Ampere Altra Announces 80-Core Arm Neoverse N1 Server Processor & Reference Designs
The first 64-bit Arm server processor was announced almost 9 years ago. Applied Micro X-Gene was found in several servers, and the company updated X-Gene family until it got bought by Ampere in 2018.
The latter has now announced the first of their own design with Ampere Altra, an 80-core Arm Neoverse N1 server processor made for data centers.
Ampere Altra specifications:
- Processor Subsystem
- 80x Arm v8.2+ 64-bit CPU cores up to 3.0 GHz with Sustained Turbo
- 64 KB L1 I-cache, 64 KB L1 D-cache per core, 1 MB L2 cache per core, 32 MB System Level Cache
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