Ampere’s 2024 Strategy and Roadmap Update. As a company that specializes in sustainable and power-efficient computing for the cloud and AI, Ampere is proud to highlight our continued innovation and invention in this field including details on

#31: Solving Puzzles in Compilers and Beyond (Kevin Smith)

Oct 26th, 2023 1h 7m

Two software engineers come together to discuss all the aspects of solving problems at the hardware software interface. Our firmware intern Jacob Little joins us from North Carolina State University, and speaks to one of Ampere's technical lead

#30: Mechanical Design (Josh Levy)

Jul 25th, 2023 53m 41s

Listen to our mechanical engineers discuss all aspects of board design at a server startup. Our intern Kate Murray joins us through Oregon State University's MECOP initiative, and speaks with her team leader Josh Levy who is a Principal Enginee

#30: Mechanical Design (Josh Levy)

Jul 25th, 2023 53m 41s

#29: Ampere Strategy and 2023 Roadmap Update

May 18th, 2023 28m 40s

Hear Ampere executives, partners, and end users discuss the future of cloud computing and the importance of high performance, high efficiency compute.Renee James, Founder and CEO Jeff Wittich, Chief Product OfficerLearn more about Ampere

#28: Working for Your Team (Pete Baker)

May 3rd, 2023 54m 43s

Another intern has joined us in the studio, continuing the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with senior leaders. In this installment, Tito Reinhard joins us from Portland State University, and speaks with his team leader Pete Bake

#27: Unintuitive Architecture (Scott Tetrick)

Jan 24th, 2023 1h 14m

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we continue with the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with their mentors. This time, Susana Alcorta speaks with Scott Tetrick on their work with applied machine learning and teases out war sto

#26: Green Computing for the Cloud (Sean Varley)

Dec 8th, 2022 1h 8m

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we continue with the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with senior leaders. In this installment, Ashley Reid and Sean Varley meet to chat about sustainable computing and the engineering challen

#25: Learning is the New Literacy (Michael Julier)

Nov 7th, 2022 1h 24m

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we continue with the series of episodes where junior engineers chat with their mentors. In this installment, Yash Caculo and Mike Julier share stories from their work on CPU architecture and workload charac

#24: Proper Git Etiquette (Darren Hart)

Sep 27th, 2022 1h 7m

Zaid Alali and Darren Hart come into the studio to share what the Open Source Software team is doing at Ampere, plus tips for how to interact with the Linux community. Zaid is an recent PhD graduate from University of Colorado, and Darren is a

#23: Building Birdhouses and Building Firmware (Arjun Khare)

Aug 6th, 2022 1h 1m

From the Summer Intern Class of 2022, we bring you the first of a series of episodes where junior engineers chat with their mentors and managers. Here, Justin Newsome (North Carolina State University) invites Arjun Khare to share insights into

#22: Problems with SMT in the Cloud

Jun 27th, 2022 14m 31s

Naren Nayak and Mahesh Madhav discuss the challenges of simultaneous multi-threaded cores and why single-threaded cores deliver predictable performance, better security, and lower TCO for cloud computing.

#21: Ampere Strategy and 2022 Roadmap Update

May 31st, 2022 24m 31s

Hear Ampere executives and cloud providers discuss the future of cloud computing with the Ampere® Altra® processor family, as well as key customers sharing their enthusiasm for these products.Renee James, Founder and CEO Jeff Wittich, Chief

#20: Ensuring Cloud Customer Success with HW/SW Optimizations (Naren Nayak)

Mar 30th, 2022 27m 59s

Naren Nayak is the Director of Application Engineering in the product solutions team at Ampere Computing, working on enabling customers to get the most out of Ampere Altra and Altra Max SoCs. He shared insights on what cloud service providers a

#19: Building Blocks of an SoC (Matt Erler)

Jan 18th, 2022 37m 55s

Matt Erler is a Principal Engineer in the architecture team at Ampere Computing, working on SoCs and coherency protocols. We chatted about how we choose whether to build our own IP or license externally, competitive benchmarking, how our team f

#18: Breaking Away From Legacy Architectures (Richard Shannon)

Nov 8th, 2021 43m 17s

Richard Shannon is a Distinguished Engineer in the architecture team at Ampere Computing, working on SoC and interconnects. We sat down and talked about the kinds of problems cloud service providers are looking to solve and how Ampere addresses

#17: Ampere Strategy and Roadmap Update

May 18th, 2021 31m 48s

Hear Ampere executives and cloud providers discuss the future of cloud computing with Ampere® Altra and Altra Max, and exciting new developments on our product roadmap. Renee James, Founder and CEO Atiq Bajwa, Chief Technology OfficerJeff

#17: Ampere Strategy and 2021 Roadmap Update

May 15th, 2021 31m 48s

#16: Building Cloud Native CPUs (Renee James)

Apr 24th, 2021 45m 15s

Renee James is the founder and CEO of Ampere Computing. In this interview, she shares her motivations behind starting a new semiconductor company, and how the new Altra processor was designed for cloud software.Learn more about our Altra and

#14: Enriching the Software Ecosystem

Mar 9th, 2021 7m 48s

In 2021, Ampere is leading in software though building community, fostering technical partnerships, ensuring open-source performance, and seeding the next generation of engineers in cloud. Hear our software leaders speak about enabling the cl

#15: Demystifying the Product Life Cycle (Tony D'Anna)

Mar 7th, 2021 27m 59s

Tony D'Anna is the Director of Technical Program Management at Ampere Computing. Tony returned to the studio to share the life cycle of the Ampere Altra SoC product, from power-on to customer shipments and ongoing support.Learn more about Amp

#13: Designing a Server Motherboard (Tony D'Anna)

Feb 16th, 2021 37m 7s

Tony D'Anna is the Director of Technical Program Management at Ampere Computing. We sat down with Tony to discuss the design and buildout of motherboards for the Altra product line.Learn more about Ampere at www.amperecomputing.com/

#12: Sharing Engineering Stories (Mahesh Madhav)

Jan 22nd, 2021 49m 59s

Christen turns the mic around and interviews Mahesh, and gets him to open up about his journeys in the technical and creative realms, and how he teases out stories from the employees at Ampere Computing.

#11: Verifying a CPU Design (Stacey and Kalpana)

Apr 8th, 2020 54m 19s

In this episode, Stacey Ross and Kalpana Kothapally share the art and science of design verification, the methodology of finding bugs in hardware designs before tape-out, before silicon. There is a particular mindset that DV engineers must take

#10: Validating Hardware with Software at Scale

Mar 18th, 2020 53m 2s

In this episode, William Freelove and Travis Lazar take to the mics to discuss the importance of DevOps in a small company, the prevalent use of open source tools in our workflow, and how Ampere is efficiently validating hardware and software.