Oracle unveils its first Arm-based cloud instances
The company is giving developers a great deal in order to build Arm-based apps on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
This week Oracle announced that it is launching its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform.
OCI Ampere A1 Compute is the name of the new o... Read more
VMware adds support for Ampere Altra-chips
VMware has added support for Ampere Altra to its ESXi hypervisor. This makes ESXi more usable for SmartNICs, edge devices and Arm servers, for example.
The update in question is version 1.3 of the Arm version of the EXSi hypervisor and has been released as a preview under the so-called Fling pro... Read more
Nvidia’s latest A100 GPU debuts on Google Cloud
The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance series on Google Cloud.
The company claims that the new chip, built using Nvidia's new Ampere architecture, is the most powerful GPU the company has ever produced. Designed primari... Read more
Oracle reveals large investment in Intel competitor
Oracle has announced 40 million U.S. dollars (36.72 million euros) to invest in a startup that wants to compete with Intel. The startup, Ampere Computing, develops processors for data centers and has former Intel president Renee James as CEO.
The investment represents a little under 20 percent o... Read more