Oracle Bets On AMD, Ampere CPUs, reconsiders long-standing partnership with Intel

[DuckDodgers]

Intel however is not giving up on the partnership with Oracle and insists that the new line of Xeon Scalable offerings will be a strong player on the enterprise market.

 

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Oracle reportedly plans to spend significant amounts of money this year on CPUs from AMD and chip startup Ampere Computing for new infrastructure as the company’s founder and chairman, Larry Ellison, said that the “old Intel x86 architecture” is “reaching its limit.”

 

The Austin, Texas-based infrastructure giant announced new initiatives with AMD and Ampere Computing in separate announcements over the past week. The moves underline the increased competition faced not just by Intel but also AMD, which makes x86 chips too, as Arm-based CPUs designed by companies like Ampere Computing proliferate deeper into the cloud and data center markets.

 

At a Wednesday event, Ellison said the company is spending “billions” of dollars on Nvidia GPUs and investing significantly more into CPUs from AMD and Ampere Computing, Reuters reported.

 

One thing is clear -- Intel can no longer expect its hyperscale client base to adjust their upgrade/migration cycles to the pace of its own R&D and manufacturing capacity delays. Times have changed.

 

Source: https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/oracle-bets-on-amd-ampere-cpus-ellison-says-intel-x86-architecture-is-reaching-its-limit-

[igormp]

Not really news and not really exclusive to oracle, all of the major hyperscalers are going with AMD whenever they can, along with Ampere (or Graviton in case of AWS) for ARM offerings.

 

On the GPU front, AMD's cloud presence is a joke and pretty much non-existent and that market is dominated by Nvidia.

[williamcll]

Yes but does this mean Java will work natively multicore?