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.
However, the business is very interesting, actually based on 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 X-Gene 3 chip from AppliedMicro, which was acquired by Macom in early 2017. Then at the end of the year, Carlyle came out with Macom as James was 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 the ARM V8 instruction set, clocked at 3.3 GHz, provides a fairly comprehensive set of I / O support including PCIe 3.0, SATA3, USB, etc. Memory Support ECC Error Correction and RAS Encryption Verification , Can build a 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.