Ampere Computing LLC is an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California that develops processors for servers operating in large scale environments.

Ampere has offices in: Portland, Oregon; Taipei, Taiwan;[2] Raleigh, North Carolina; Bangalore, India;[2] Warsaw, Poland;[3] and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

James acquired a team from MACOM Technology Solutions (formerly AppliedMicro) in addition to several industry hires to start the company.

[9][12] In June 2019, Nvidia announced a partnership with Ampere to bring support for Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).

[13][14] In November 2019, Nvidia announced a reference design platform for graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated ARM-based servers including Ampere.

[17] In September of that year, Oracle said it would launch bare-metal and virtual machine instances in early 2021 based on Ampere Altra.

[citation needed] In April 2022, Ampere said that it had filed a confidential prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling its intent to go public.

[16] These are used in databases, media encoding, web services, network acceleration, mobile gaming, AI inference processing, and other applications and programs that need to scale.

[39] The companies will combine Ampere's Altra Max CPUs with Rigetti's Quantum Processing Units (QPU) in cloud-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

[49] In April 2022, Microsoft previewed Ampere Altra processors in its new Azure D-and E- series virtual machines.

[50] They provide up to 64 vCPUs, include VM sizes with 2GiB, 4GiB, and 8GiB per vCPU memory configurations, up to 40 Gbit/s networking, and high-performance local SSD storage.