Altra Earlier in the year we have a good look at the first ever Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU in the form s of the Graviton2 from Amazon. Whilst that chip was great – it wasn’t really a true competitor in the market as it was availably only to Amazon’s cloud business. Today’s release of the new Ampere Computing Altra processors is bound to change that. The Altra is aiming for nothing less than top performance, going all in against AMD and Intel. 80 Neoverse-N1 cores at 3.3GHz and 250W, 8x DDR4-3200, 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes for I/O – the new Altra Q80-33 is the best the Arm world has ever seen, and we’ve put the new chip through its paces.