Ampere Computing
Arm-based cloud-native server CPUs; acquired by SoftBank in 2025
Ampere designs high-core-count Arm-based server CPUs (Altra, AmpereOne) built for cloud-native and AI-inference-adjacent workloads, adopted by Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, and others as an efficient x86 alternative. In 2025 SoftBank agreed to acquire Ampere for ~$6.5B, aligning it with Arm and SoftBank's broader AI-infrastructure ambitions. Its CPUs host inference and general compute in AI data centers and are fabbed at TSMC.
Products
Altra, AmpereOne (Arm server CPUs)
2025 event
SoftBank acquisition (~$6.5B)
Customers
Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud
How it fits the stack
Ampere Computing with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Ampere Computing in the AI stack. Ampere Computing with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 7 entities, 7 relationships
- Ampere Computing —uses→ Arm Holdings
- Ampere Computing —used by→ Arm Holdings
- Ampere Computing —uses→ Arm Neoverse / CSS server IP
- Ampere Computing —depends on→ TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) —used by→ Ampere Computing
- SoftBank Compute / Izanagi & Arm AI —uses→ Ampere Computing
- Ampere Computing —competes with→ Intel
Depends on ↑ · 4
Context — capital, rivals, policy · · 1