最近有读者向小编反馈，最近文章更新较慢，竟然开始水图片了，小编在这里要说明下，小编最近确实项目比较忙，也一直多个文章构思中，会尽快成文，当然图片也是很好的一种传达形式，绝对不是水图片哦，OK，我们回归主题，最近一家新兴的基于ARM框架的服务器芯片公司Ampere，很多人对这家公司还是相对比较陌生，我们也来简单探讨下这家公司的情况。
Ampere
Ampere是一家美国服务器芯片研发商，主要产品为Ampere Arm处理器芯片以及Ampere开发平台等，主要应用于云计算数据中心，同时还为用户提供高度集成数据中心解决方案。
Ampere 于2017年底启动，从Macom收购了IP和资产，Macom的前身是Applied Micro，后者是最初的基于Arm的服务器供应商之一。不到一年后，它开始发售其首款基于Arm的处理器。包括联想在内的OEM商在其服务器中也使用此CPU。
这家总部位于加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉的公司在全球设有七个办事处，其中包括美国境外的四个办事处和约600名员工。
创始人背景
Renee J. James
毕业于俄勒冈大学，获工商管理学士和硕士学位。进入Intel之前，她曾在VMware做了七年的独立总监兼审计委员会成员。1987年加入英特尔，曾经是英特尔前传奇CEO安迪·格鲁夫（Andy Grove）的办公室主任，詹姆斯在英特尔效力28年，在此期间，她曾带领该公司向软件和服务领域扩张。在詹姆斯的带领下，英特尔完成了两宗重要的软件公司收购：分别以76亿美元收购在线安全软件公司McAfee，以及以8.84亿美元收购嵌入式软件与服务提供商风河系统公司，2016年2月，这位intel最有权势的女性离开了Intel。
2017年10月，Renee J. James创立了Ampere Computing，公司主攻数据中心服务器市场。
融资信息
甲骨文还披露，通过投资，他们获得了Ampere不超过20%的股份，并且获得了Ampere董事会的一个席位，他们已经任命了一位董事。
另外还有消息称Ampere在2019年4月宣布从芯片设计公司Arm Holdings获得一轮融资，
团队情况
核心成员大部分来自英特尔和AMD这些芯片巨头，当中的大多数人在服务器的软硬件领域拥有非常丰富的经验，Ampere对服务器芯片和软件的理解相当深入，可以说Ampere是世界上最理解服务器产品的团队。
管理团队情况明细
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.
芯片进展近况
2018年，发布了基于ARM v8架构的16nm制程32核心主频3.3GHz的Ampere eMAG。
2020年3月，发布了基于ARM v8架构，号称“世界上首款云原生处理器”的Ampere Altra处理器。
新一代的处理器Altra，拥有80个64位ARM 处理器内核，每颗主频为3.0GHz，并且都能在Turbo模式下运行。即便是所有核心都满负荷工作，它也依然能保证Turbo模式稳定运行，并且这颗处理器还被设计成了单核单线程，以保证性能上的最优以及安全性，具体参数如下：
在服务器芯片领域相当长的一段时间，一直是Intel的领地，其他品牌基本无法进入（这是个什么概念呢，举个 intel占了99%的市场，其他不足1%），从2017年开始AMD在苏妈的带领下慢慢复苏重归服务器市场，AMD借助于台积电的5nm工艺，也希望能够赶超Intel，来自ARM军团的Ampere作为一股新生势力给这个市场带了新的声音，我们也期望新的玩家能奏出自己华丽的乐章。
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