Renée James, Intel's former 'number two' and former president Renée James, announced his departure in 2015. As a 28-year veteran, she was promoted to president with the re-designation of CEO and only then took classes after only two years.
Later, James was quiet, until recently TMHW reported that with the support of the Carlyle Group, James will lead Ampere, a new server chip company.
But the business is very interesting, Actually based on the ARM architecture, large customers facing the data center, which coincides with the former Intel and James belong to competition.
Of course, Ampere was not a zero-start, predecessor, the Applied Micro's X-Gene 3 chip, which was acquired by Macom in early 2017. Then at the end of the year, Carlyle came out with Macom equal to James being private equity The new helmsman looking for the X-Gene 3.
Carlyle also said that behind Ampere in addition to James, there are some former Intel senior staff.
In terms of parameters, Ampere's new 64-bit CPU core based on ARM V8 instruction set developed at 3.3GHz, I / O support is quite comprehensive, including PCIe 3.0, SATA3, USB, etc. Memory support ECC error correction and RAS encryption verification, can build Complete virtualization service platform, support BIOS / UEFI and so on.
Although Intel's products are still dominating the server / data center space, competition in the market will intensify as AMD EPYC, Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Series and Cavium ThunderX2 pinpoint their own pace.
