Amplified by Ampere

Design Verification is a discipline that sits on the boundary between hardware and software -- many of the same engineering skills come into play, but the end goal is to ship a piece of silicon! And the design space keep getting exponentially larger, yet the number of DV engineers is held constant, so what can a CPU designer do? Listen in as Allan Rudwick and Carson Bunker sit down and chat about the methods used to verify Ampere's custom cores and SoC products.

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 upcoming products, milestones, and key industry alliances.

Renee James, Founder and CEO

Jeff Wittich, Chief Product Officer

To learn more about Ampere visit https://www.amperecomputing.com and for more information on performance claims, see footnotes which are available at:

https://amperecomputing.com/home/roadmap-2024-footnotes

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 leaders, Kevin Smith. Kevin is the Vice President of Languages and Compilers. Topics in this episode include working across organizations, how to up-level your communications, explaining concepts to audiences both technical and non-technical, and uplifting our peers!

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 Engineer in the mechanical design team. Topics in this show include thermal analysis and thermal solutions, vibrational elements of servers, sourcing parts for reference designs, immersion cooling, modal analysis, and the tangible aspects of mechanical design.

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 Officer

Learn more about Ampere at

https://www.amperecomputing.com

Footnote:

The web services study here is based on performance and power data for many typical workloads using single node performance comparisons measured and published by Ampere Computing.

Details and efficiency footnotes are available at https://www.amperecomputing.com/home/roadmap-footnotes

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 Baker who is the VP of Customer and Developer Engineering. Topics in this show include sustainable engineering for climate/energy concerns, technical curiosity, and Tito's project involving data warehousing for customer performance benchmarking.

Applicable buzzwords include: Great Teams, Great Culture, ARM Startup, Developer Outreach, Human Engineering, Retrospective Leadership, Customer Engagement, Customer Success, Developer Advocacy, Ampere Ambassadors, Building teams, Software, Leadership Empathy, Servant Leadership, Performance Benchmarking

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 stories from Scott's time building and debugging SoCs.

Susana Alcorta is working on her PhD at UT-Austin, and Scott Tetrick is an Ampere Fellow in the Architecture team in Portland, OR.

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 challenges that Ampere overcomes to build low-power processors. Sean also talks about his journey through firmware engineering and CPU architecture into technical product marketing.

Ashley Reid is about to complete her BSEE at Oregon State University, and Sean Varley is the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Ampere's headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

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 characterization, along with tips on when to build tools and how to write clean code. We hear how Mike applies leadership skills learned from his days on the Michigan football team that won a Rose Bowl championship, and discover what goes through his mind when running through the desert.

Yash Caculo is working on his MS at Georgia Tech, and Mike Julier is a Distinguished Engineer in SoC architecture and performance debug.

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 Distinguished Engineer in software systems.