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Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by mhh__ on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:05AM (#25466647)
Didn't they build the architecture and then chuck it?
Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by cameron_b on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:24AM (#25467345)
Yes, called Seattle, in their codenames.

For a little while there was one partner who used it for Gluster ( or similar ) storage nodes.

It fit into the model of Arm processors that were performant enough to be the glue between hard disks or flash and a reasonably fast network. But after the PCI lanes were all dispatched there wasn't a lot of compute for applications on top.

Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by boudin on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:02AM (#25467123)
Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by TheCondor on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:25AM (#25466795)
I think they grafted 4 and 8 cortex a57 in to a package and it didn’t seem to have much market interest.

I too have heard that they have their own ARM micro architecture project though

Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by sitkack on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:12PM (#25469260)
I could see AMD grafting an Arm front end onto Epyc.