80-core ARM CPU to bring lower power, higher density to a rack near you

80-core ARM CPU to bring lower power, higher density to a rack near you

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/amperes-altra-is-80-arm-cores-of-cloud-native-power-efficient-cpu/

ARM CPU vendor Ampere announced an 80-core CPU called the Altra on Tuesday. If the core count didn't clue you in already, the Altra is aimed at data-center computing rather than home or even typical business needs. The Altra's 80 cores do not offer hyperthreading, so 80 cores here means 80 threads as well.

Before we go into too much detail about the Altra—which is currently sampling but is not yet generally available and does not have any third-party benchmarks—it's instructive to take a look slightly backward to its little sibling, the 32-core eMAG 8180.