Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week

Oracle last week announced that it had divested from Ampere Computing. But while Big Red may no longer own part of the Arm CPU maker, it's not ready to stop using the chips just yet.

On Monday, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the database giant's cloud wing, announced the availability of its A4 Standard instances based on Ampere Computing's AmpereOne M silicon in both virtualized and bare metal flavors.

The chips can be had with up to 192 custom Arm cores on the open market. Unlike Amazon's Graviton or Microsoft's Cobalt, these aren't OCI exclusive.

For OCI, Oracle has opted for a 96-core version of the chip clocked at 3.6 GHz with 192 MB and 64 MB of L2 and L3 cache, respectively, and 12 channels of DDR5 5600MT/s memory.

Those cores are offered to customers in pairs of what Oracle is calling OCPUs ...