Cloud-native processor
A cloud-native processor (CNP) is a general purpose central processing unit (CPU) specifically designed to support the growing number of cloud-native computing applications which do not require any on-site computing infrastructure, or software designed specifically to create, build and store information over the cloud.[1][2] According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cloud-native technologies enable organizations to build and run scalable applications in public, private, and hybrid clouds.[2][3]
Technology
Cloud-native processor allow for scalability, cost-effectiveness and better energy efficiencies than legacy processors.[4]
Cloud-native versus other processors
Widely-used x86 processors use simultaneous multithreading where each core has two threads.[5][6] This works well in enterprise environments where they are utilized by a single entity. In contrast, in a cloud environment, where utilized by multiple users with different applications sharing the same core, they are not able to adjust to changing workloads, compromising performance.[6]
By comparison, cloud-native processors offer 80 and 128 cores and are single threaded, which allows for simultaneous connections in a cloud environment resulting in scalability.[7][8][9] The processors are also smaller with more efficient power usage and can run both enterprise and cloud-native applications, making them more cost effective than other alternatives.[10] Cloud-native processors are a useful option for data centers, which are predicted to use 11 percent of the world's electricity by 2030.[11][12]
Products
Ampere Computing, founded in 2018, released a cloud-native processor in 2020.[10] That processor, the Ampere Altra, and its successor, the Ampere Altra Max, are used by Oracle, Microsoft Azure, Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance.[10] In 2021, Alibaba released its Yitian 710 processor as a cloud-native processor.[9] In 2022, Ampere announced a new custom-designed core and AMD and Intel announced they were working on their own cloud-native designs.[13][10][14][15] Hewlett Packard Enterprise also announced a cloud-native server based on Ampere's cloud-native processors.[16]
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