Former Intel Corp president Renee James has created a new chipmaker that is producing server computer processors aimed at the most lucrative business of the world’s second-largest chipmaker.
Ampere Computing, backed by Carlyle Group Inc, has sent samples of its first model to prospective customers and has even better ones in the works, James said. It’s targeting cloud-service providers such as Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon.com Inc’s web services unit and the other members of the “super seven” that account for an increasing amount of industry sales. The processors, which Ampere is designing in house, use technology from ARM Holdings Plc.