By Tobias Mann
Publication Date: 2025-12-15 22:26:00
Oracle announced last week that it had separated from Ampere Computing. While Big Red may no longer own any part of the Arm CPU maker, it isn’t ready to stop using the chips just yet.
On Monday, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the cloud wing of the database giant, announced the availability of its A4 Standard instances based on Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne M silicon in both virtualized and bare metal variants.
The chips are available on the open market with up to 192 custom Arm cores. Unlike Amazon’s Graviton or Microsoft’s Cobalt, these are not OCI exclusive.
For OCI, Oracle chose a 96-core version of the chip with a clock speed of 3.6 GHz, 192 MB and 64 MB of L2 and L3 cache and 12 channels of DDR5 memory at 5600 MT/s.
