Having unveiled its AmpereOne processor in 2023, revealing a powerful CPU with up to 192 single-threaded cores, the highest in the industry, Ampere is now preparing an updated version that will arrive in 2025, it revealed.
company annual Strategy and roadmap update The video (which you can watch below) reveals more about its future plans, including that the next generation of AmpereOne will be manufactured on a 3nm process node (its predecessor is 5nm) and will have up to 256 cores and DDR5 memory of 12 channels.
“We are in a cycle of extreme hype about AI,” Renée James, founder and CEO of Ampere, said in the video. “This is evidenced by the near-panic buying of GPU capacity at the expense of all other forms of data computing. This too shall pass. All hype cycles adjust to a new normal… At Ampere, we are working hard to enable and develop products for that phase of the new normal, the next decade of AI computing.”
40 percent more performance than other CPUs
James says Ampere is “expanding our product family to include a new 256-core product that delivers 40 percent more performance than any other CPU on the market,” but it's not just about cores. There are several new features that the company says will “enable efficient performance, memory, caching, and AI computing.” The future chip will use the same air-cooled thermal solution as the current one.
Ampere has compared its CPUs to Nvidia's older A10 GPU for AI inference, showing how it can run LLM models efficiently and use less power. This is an important area for Ampere, which announced, as part of its roadmap update, that it is working with Qualcomm to develop a joint solution for AI inference using Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100.
The company also claims that AmpereOne offers higher performance per watt than AMD's “Bergamo” EPYC. However, as Serve at home notes: “Ampere is using an estimated score on its part and also downgrades AMD EPYC Bergamo performance, normalizing it to GCC 13 performance.”
