![]() ![]() The 16 vCPU instances are arranged in four quad-core clusters with 2MB of shared L2 cache per cluster, and 32KB of L1 data cache, and 48KB of L1 instruction cache, per core. The system-on-chips use a mix of Arm's data-center-friendly Neoverse technology, and Annapurna's in-house designs. They are 64-bit, Armv8-A, little endian, non-NUMA, and feature hardware acceleration for floating-point math, SIMD, plus AES, SHA-1, SHA-256, GCM, and CRC-32 algorithms. ![]() Its CPU cores are based on Arm's 2015-era Cortex-A72 designs, and are clocked at 2.3GHz. Here's what we know about the Graviton right now. To break free from this grasp, and be able to customize their own silicon, internet goliaths are considering Arm, OpenPower, RISC-V and AMD Epyc offerings. Chipzilla owns just under 100 per cent of the world's data center compute market share. Speaking of Intel, this all comes at a time when cloud giants – Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Baidu, and so on – are looking at alternative chip suppliers to avoid Intel's high prices and component shortages. He added: "When I joined AWS in 2009, I wouldn’t have predicted we would be designing server processors less than a decade later." "Most of companies that are producing silicon that license Arm technology are fabless semiconductor companies, which is to say they are in the semiconductor business but outsource the manufacturing of silicon chips in massively expensive facilities to specialized companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Global Foundries." He also spelled out why Amazon decided to go it alone: the ability to license Arm blueprints, via Annapurna, the ability to customize and tweak those designs, and the ability to go to contract manufacturers like TSMC and Global Foundries, and get competitive chips made. Today, Hamilton said, "I’ve seen the potential for Arm-based server processors for more than a decade, but it takes time for all the right ingredients to come together." When I joined AWS in 2009, I wouldn’t have predicted we would be designing server processors less than a decade later. ![]() It wasn't known publicly at the time that AWS was tapping AMD as an Arm processor supplier. Well, except maybe Softiron.Īround the time the AMD-Amazon Arm partnership was collapsing, and just before the web giant bought Annapurna, AWS veep James Hamilton complained that Arm CPU cores couldn't match rival Intel parts in terms of performance. Today, AMD is all in with its much more successful Zen-based x86 processors, Ryzen and Epyc, and no one talks about the A1100. As for AMD, in 2016 it launched what remained of the Arm chip it was working on with Amazon, the Opteron A1100 codenamed Seattle. ![]()
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