In addition to the Qualcomm partnership, Ampere also announced a collaboration with NETINT to develop a solution that combines Ampere’s CPUs with NETINT’s video processing chips. This server will be capable of transcoding 360 live video channels in parallel and using OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text model to subtitle 40 streams. Ampere is not discontinuing any of its existing chips in favor of these new ones, as Wittich emphasized that the older chips still have many use cases.
Key takeaways:
- Ampere and Qualcomm have partnered to offer an AI-focused server that uses Ampere’s CPUs and Qualcomm’s Cloud AI100 Ultra AI inferencing chips for running models.
- The partnership with Qualcomm is part of Ampere's annual roadmap update, which includes the new 256-core AmpereOne chip, built using a modern 3nm process.
- Ampere is also partnering with NETINT to build a joint solution that pairs Ampere’s CPUs with NETINT’s video processing chips, capable of transcoding 360 live video channels in parallel.
- Ampere's new generation of AmpereOne chips feature 12-channel DDR5 RAM, allowing data center customers to better tune their users’ memory access according to their needs.