Oracle has one last Ampere hurrah - new cloud platforms offer up to 192 custom Arm cores, and aren't OCI exclusive, unlike Graviton or Cobalt

• New Oracle A4 instances use AmpereOne M silicon in virtualized and bare metal configurations
• Virtual machines run up to 45 OCPUs, equivalent to 90 cores
• Bare metal instances provide 48 OCPUs, 96 cores, 768GB memory, and 3.84TB storage

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has introduced A4 Standard instances powered by Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne M silicon, available in both virtualized and bare metal configurations.

The company recently divested from Ampere but continues to offer the chips to customers.

Each chip can provide up to 192 custom Arm cores, and Oracle is selling these instances outside its own cloud, unlike Amazon Graviton or Microsoft Cobalt processors.