128Core

Ampere's Altra processors were developed primarily for cloud service providers, which is why the company pushed systems on their base to customers like Alibaba and Oracle. But as the company is gaining traction, it wants its platforms to be available to a broader audience. To do so, it needs to partner with large server makers, and starting from the third quarter, HPE will offer ProLiant machines powered by Ampere's Altra CPUs with up to 128 cores.Hewlett Packard Enterprise's ProLiant RL Gen11 powered by Ampere's Altra…

When Tachyum unveiled the concept of its Prodigy Universal Processor at Hot Chips 18, it made quite a splash with a chip designed to run any code using a dynamic binary translator. It demonstrated high performance when executing both native and translated code. It took the company a while to design the actual hardware, taking pre-orders on evaluation kits (opens in new tab); the company also discloses the exact specifications of its Prodigy. They certainly look impressive, but they are also scary with a 950W thermal…