What really excites me, is the potential of future Altra designs. Ampere has already announced that Altra-Max “Mystique” will be coming in 2021 – essentially a 128-core version of the same Neoverse-N1 platform used in the QuickSilver design today. We’ll have to see how that scales, but it’ll certainly be a compute monster. The real big deal will be the 5nm 2022 “Siryn” design – if Ampere adopts the Neoverse-V1 CPU core from Arm, and I hope they will, then that would signify at minimum a +50% performance uplift, which is massive.
Der Teil des Servermarktes, der nicht auf x86-Kompatibilität angewiesen ist, verwandelt sich für die beiden X86-Anbieter so langsam von einem Ruhekissen in einen Schwiegermuttersitz...