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SEAN VARLEY: My name is Sean Varley.
I'm the senior director of Solutions at Ampere.
Welcome to Microsoft Build.
At Ampere, we're passionate about developers using
our technology to innovate and
expand what Cloud-native can be.
We've built the world's first Cloud Native Processor.
What I want to share with you today are
the essentials for Cloud Native Processor.
Its foundations, solutions, and benefits.
We're delighted to see
Ampere processors running on Microsoft Azure.
We invite you to try out
Azure virtual machines built on Ampere Ultra processors.
Ampere Ultra is the world's first
Cloud Native Processor.
We start out with single-threaded cores.
A single-threaded core is very different from the legacy
x86 ecosystem because you
run to completion one thread, one process.
In an x86 Processor,
you've got at least two friends and they
compete for the resources of the processor.
This creates a very unpredictable environment.
You contrast that with a single-threaded core,
you get the same amount of performance with every core,
and that gives you a high degree of predictability.
We also use constant operating frequency.
Contrast that with the x86 ecosystem
that does frequency scaling.
Again, contributing to
that overall lack of predictability,
constant frequency in
single-threaded cores deliver high predictability.
Ampere uses the most
power-efficient cores in the industry.
This allows us to stack a lot of cores
into a processor and that is
part of our differentiation.
We have the highest core counts in the industry.
You contrast that with
the x86 industry where you got low core counts and
high power per core giving you
that high power processor.
Ampere processors, a low power,
high core count, very predictable.
Finally, we pipeline our cores
with a large private L2 cache.
That L2 cache is there to operate
right next to the core.
This gives you the highest performance
and you pipeline all the data,
all the instruction set into that L2 cache, giving you
the most predictable performance profile for each core.
In summary,
a Cloud Native Processor
starts with single-threaded cores,
consistent operating frequencies, and
the most power-efficient cores in the industry.
You top that all off with
large pipeline caches into L2 close to the processors.
This is what really delivers Cloud Native Processor.
Ampere Cloud Native Processors
are built for the sustainable Cloud.
Ampere Ultra and Ultra Max processors deliver
leadership performance for Cloud Native workloads.
We've published data on a variety of commonly
seen and used applications in the Cloud today.
Web Services, you can see NGINX,
databasing, MySQL, Cassandra,
in-memory caching, Redis, Memcached,
transcoding, x264, x265.
These are the common transcoders used
out there in video processing today and
in AI inference, we publish ML per resonant 50 results.
These results show the foundational,
disruptive nature of our Cloud Native Processor.
We're showing here both raw performance
as well as performance per watt or power efficiency.
This metric, power efficiency, is the one that
really shows for the sustainable Cloud.
This is how we give you disruptive value at a very,
very low power consumption.
These data points show up to
four times the actual value
in raw performance over the x86 legacy ecosystem,
four times in power efficiency,
and up to two or three times better in raw performance.
This is absolutely disruptive.
These are the results that deliver
a generational change in Cloud Native Computing.
At Ampere, we approach
enabling the ecosystem in a very, very different way.
We actually run in regression
over 135 applications every day on
infrastructures ranging from our Cloud partners
to our own infrastructure internally.
These applications are ranging
from the operating system level
all the way to the application level.
You can go find
this information on solutions.amperecomputing.com.
We run these things again every day in
regression on Ampere,
on Equinix, on Oracle,
and now on Microsoft Azure.
Ampere addresses the challenges
of computing for the next decade.
We have processors in the Ultra family to
address core to the edge use cases.
In the core, we have Ultra Max
128 cores SPECrate integer of 360.
That's a very high score,
one of the highest in the industry.
But for that, you'll only expend
190 watts of power under load.
That is incredible.
At the edge,
you can go from 32 to 64 cores,
get SPECrate scores from 100 to 245.
For that, you'll only expend 40-120 watts.
This is disruptive value, power efficiency
at its perfection.
Ampere is committed to an annual cadence.
Two years ago we launched Ampere Ultra.
Last year, Ampere Ultra Max.
This year we're launching
our next-generation processor, five-nanometer product
on our own course.
We know that performance alone is not enough.
We have to deliver sustainable products,
and this requires a holistic architectural approach.
Ampere Ultra is
the industry's first and only Cloud Native Processor.
It's predictable, high performance,
scalable, secure, and sustainable.
The Ampere Ultra CPU is best in class in performance.
You can get it today on Microsoft Azure.
From a Cloud Native Workload perspective,
we perform well on all workloads, from web services,
databasing, in-memory caching,
media transcoding, and AI inference.
We approach software ecosystem
enabling very differently.
We run 135 plus Cloud Native Applications
every day in regression.
Check it out at solutions.amperecomputing.com.
Thank you.
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