最近有讀者向小編反饋，最近文章更新較慢，竟然開始水圖片了，小編在這裡要說明下，小編最近確實項目比較忙，也一直多個文章構思中，會盡快成文，當然圖片也是很好的一種傳達形式，絕對不是水圖片哦，OK，我們迴歸主題，最近一家新興的基於ARM框架的服務器芯片公司Ampere，很多人對這家公司還是相對比較陌生，我們也來簡單探討下這家公司的情況。
Ampere
Ampere是一家美國服務器芯片研發商，主要產品為Ampere Arm處理器芯片以及Ampere開發平臺等，主要應用於雲計算數據中心，同時還為用戶提供高度集成數據中心解決方案。
Ampere 於2017年底啟動，從Macom收購了IP和資產，Macom的前身是Applied Micro，後者是最初的基於Arm的服務器供應商之一。不到一年後，它開始發售其首款基於Arm的處理器。包括聯想在內的OEM商在其服務器中也使用此CPU。
這家總部位於加利福尼亞州聖克拉拉的公司在全球設有七個辦事處，其中包括美國境外的四個辦事處和約600名員工。
創始人背景
Renee J. James
畢業於俄勒岡大學，獲工商管理學士和碩士學位。進入Intel之前，她曾在VMware做了七年的獨立總監兼審計委員會成員。1987年加入英特爾，曾經是英特爾前傳奇CEO安迪·格魯夫（Andy Grove）的辦公室主任，詹姆斯在英特爾效力28年，在此期間，她曾帶領該公司向軟件和服務領域擴張。在詹姆斯的帶領下，英特爾完成了兩宗重要的軟件公司收購：分別以76億美元收購在線安全軟件公司McAfee，以及以8.84億美元收購嵌入式軟件與服務提供商風河系統公司，2016年2月，這位intel最有權勢的女性離開了Intel。
2017年10月，Renee J. James創立了Ampere Computing，公司主攻數據中心服務器市場。
融資信息
甲骨文還披露，通過投資，他們獲得了Ampere不超過20%的股份，並且獲得了Ampere董事會的一個席位，他們已經任命了一位董事。
另外還有消息稱Ampere在2019年4月宣佈從芯片設計公司Arm Holdings獲得一輪融資，
團隊情況
核心成員大部分來自英特爾和AMD這些芯片巨頭，當中的大多數人在服務器的軟硬件領域擁有非常豐富的經驗，Ampere對服務器芯片和軟件的理解相當深入，可以說Ampere是世界上最理解服務器產品的團隊。
管理團隊情況明細
Renee J. James
Founder/Chairman and CEO
Renee James founded Ampere Computing in 2017 where she is currently the Chairman and CEO. Ampere produces high performance microprocessors for cloud and edge computing. Renee had a lengthy career with Intel Corporation where she was the President of the company until her departure in 2016. Throughout her 28-year tenure with Intel, she led research and development, held several general management positions and led the global manufacturing organization. In 2019, James was on the Fast Company list of 100 Most Creative People in Business. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Citigroup, Vodafone and Sabre and is an Operating Executive with the Carlyle Group.
Chi Miller
CFO and COO
Chi is the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Ampere. Prior to joining Ampere, he was senior director of finance at Apple Corporation, where he supported the R&D group. Prior to Apple, Chi was with Intel for 25 years, where he held a variety of roles including platform engineering VP of finance, software and services VP of finance, M&A controller and server products controller.
Chi also served on the board of directors for three subsidiary companies while with Intel. Before joining Intel, he was a capital analyst with the Boeing Company and a financial analyst with Chrysler Financial Corporation.
Chi earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Finance from Brigham Young University and an MBA degree from the University’s Marriott School of Management.
Atiq Bajwa
CTO and Chief Architect
Atiq is a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of technical leadership experience in product R&D. Prior to joining Ampere, Atiq was VP and GM of product architecture at Intel, where he led the architectural definition and development of Intel’s computing products for the data center, PC, workstation and ultramobile markets. Over the course of an extensive career at Intel, he contributed in a number of technical and leadership roles in architecture, design and software development; served as GM of Intel’s cable networking operation; and led the acquisition and integration of a large public company. Before joining Intel, Atiq was a member of the team that developed the 32000 family of microprocessors at National Semiconductor.
Atiq received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University. He holds 6 US patents in computer architecture and was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for pioneering work on the Pentium Pro processor.
Rohit Vidwans
Executive Vice President of Engineering
Rohit brings over 25 years of experience from Intel where he developed microprocessors, graphics, media and supercomputing processors and platforms, and holds 8 microprocessor design patents. Notable projects that he worked on or led include Intels first 8 and 10 core XeonTM microprocessors for data center and enterprise servers and IntelsTM first multi-core phone and tablet SOCs based on the ATOMTM core. He led silicon and platform development teams across the world, bringing products successfully to market. He was appointed a vice president in 2013. Rohit has a MSCE from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSCE from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Sean Mirkes
Vice President of Logic Development
Sean brings 21 years of experience in designing high performance microprocessors to Ampere. Prior to joining Ampere, he was a senior principal engineer at Intel, where he led the design team for an advanced core design. Holding 10 patents, his design leadership has spanned multiple generations of Intel™ Pentium 4 and Core™ microprocessor designs, with major contributions to microarchitecture, logic design, circuit design and design efficiency.
Sean has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.
Mitrajit Chatterjee
Vice President of Silicon Engineering
Mitrajit brings 23 years of chip design, high performance microprocessor implementation and silicon characterization experience to Ampere. Prior to joining, he was an engineering director at Applied Micro, where he led the design of multiple generations of Arm server processors. Prior to that, he built and led design teams at IDT, Montalvo Systems, Sun Microsystems and Veloce Technologies. He holds seven patents and multiple technical publications in the areas of high-speed design, design automation, design-for-test, and power optimization.
Mitrajit has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics from I.I.T. Kharagpur, India, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Stephan Jourdan
Ampere Fellow
Stephan brings a wealth of experience in CPU, SoC and system architecture to Ampere. Prior to Ampere, he spent 21 years in product architecture at Intel, where he held a variety of technology and management roles including CPU core architect, chief architect of Intel’s PC client and mobile device SOCs, and most recently he was an Intel fellow in the Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Group (IPSG) and served as the IPSG chief technology officer.
Stephan is a prolific inventor, with over 50 patents to his name. Stephan received his PhD from University of Toulouse, France, and an MBA from University of Oregon.
Shiv Kaushik
Ampere Fellow
Shiv brings extensive experience in system software, instruction set architecture, SoC and platform architecture. Prior to joining Ampere, Shiv spent 24 years at Intel, where he served as the leader for Intel’s Windows OS Division, chief technology officer for the Software & Services Group and most recently as Intel’s chief Windows architect. He holds 52 patents in the area of system software and platform architecture.
Shiv received his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from The Ohio State University, where he sits on the advisory board for the department of Computer Science.
Ben Lenhart
General Counsel
Ben is the general counsel at Ampere. He joined Ampere from Tonkon Torp LLP where he was a partner focusing on mergers and acquisitions, general business, corporate and securities law matters, and commercial finance transactions. Prior to joining Tonkon Torp, he spent 20 years as an attorney with Lane Powell PC.
Since 2008, Ben has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for his skill in corporate matters relating to securities, M&A and commercial finance.
Melissa Moore
Vice President of People & Culture
Melissa Moore is a People & Culture leader that thrives in fast-paced entrepreneurial environments. She has extensive experience in developing People and HR strategies and operations for global organizations. Most recently Melissa led HR for one of the fastest growing and most awarded technology startups in Melbourne, Australia, Outware Mobile. Prior to that, she spent nine years in the game industry as an HR director for Ubisoft. Melissa has an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Matt Taylor
SVP Worldwide Sales and Business Development
Matt is the senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at Ampere. Matt has 20 years of sales and business development experience in the data center and semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Ampere, Matt was the VP of Sales and Business Development for the Qualcomm Datacenter group, where he was responsible for Qualcomm’s first Cloud, OEM, and ODM design wins and revenue shipments of the Centriq platform. Prior to Qualcomm, Matt was with Intel for 15 years, where he held a variety of Sales, Marketing and Business Development leadership roles. Most notably Matt led Intel’s sales campaign for Cisco’s datacenter portfolio and then went on to develop and lead the Worldwide Amazon account team, growing Amazon into a multi billion dollar account for Intel.
Matt earned a Bachelor of Science from University of San Diego and an International MBA from the South Carolina Moore School of Business.
Mauri Whalen
Vice President Software Engineering
Mauri Whalen is vice president of software engineering at Ampere. Her team leads and delivers software for tools/compilers, BIOS/UEFI, OS, hypervisors, middleware, application development and optimization for the Ampere™ eMAG platform. She also drives the developer program which allows developers to create and innovate on Ampere’s hardware platform.
Prior to joining Ampere, she spent more than a decade in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Her most recent position was vice president of a core system development team, where she led efforts in open source software development across a range of technologies and market segments, including enterprise Linux, leadership in the Linux ecosystem, client Linux programs and related technologies.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Jeff Wittich
Senior Vice President of Products
Jeff Wittich is the senior vice president of Products at Ampere. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business, driving global market reach, product customization, and ultimately defining the products and platforms being used across the cloud worldwide. While at Intel, Jeff also led a product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors. He received an Intel Achievement Award for his work in developing the Custom CPU program. Jeff has an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
芯片進展近況
2018年，發佈了基於ARM v8架構的16nm製程32核心主頻3.3GHz的Ampere eMAG。
2020年3月，發佈了基於ARM v8架構，號稱“世界上首款雲原生處理器”的Ampere Altra處理器。
新一代的處理器Altra，擁有80個64位ARM 處理器內核，每顆主頻為3.0GHz，並且都能在Turbo模式下運行。即便是所有核心都滿負荷工作，它也依然能保證Turbo模式穩定運行，並且這顆處理器還被設計成了單核單線程，以保證性能上的最優以及安全性，具體參數如下：
在服務器芯片領域相當長的一段時間，一直是Intel的領地，其他品牌基本無法進入（這是個什麼概念呢，舉個 intel佔了99%的市場，其他不足1%），從2017年開始AMD在蘇媽的帶領下慢慢復甦重歸服務器市場，AMD藉助於臺積電的5nm工藝，也希望能夠趕超Intel，來自ARM軍團的Ampere作為一股新生勢力給這個市場帶了新的聲音，我們也期望新的玩家能奏出自己華麗的樂章。
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