<s>
A	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processor	I-General_Concept
(	O
CNP	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
general	O
purpose	O
central	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
unit	I-General_Concept
(	O
CPU	O
)	O
specifically	O
designed	O
to	O
support	O
the	O
growing	O
number	O
of	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
applications	B-Application
which	O
do	O
not	O
require	O
any	O
on-site	O
computing	O
infrastructure	O
,	O
or	O
software	O
designed	O
specifically	O
to	O
create	O
,	O
build	O
and	O
store	O
information	O
over	O
the	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
the	O
Cloud	B-Application
Native	I-Application
Computing	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
,	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
technologies	O
enable	O
organizations	O
to	O
build	O
and	O
run	O
scalable	O
applications	B-Application
in	O
public	O
,	O
private	O
,	O
and	O
hybrid	O
clouds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processor	I-General_Concept
allow	O
for	O
scalability	O
,	O
cost-effectiveness	O
and	O
better	O
energy	O
efficiencies	O
than	O
legacy	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Widely-used	O
x86	B-Operating_System
processors	O
use	O
simultaneous	B-Operating_System
multithreading	I-Operating_System
where	O
each	O
core	O
has	O
two	O
threads	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
contrast	O
,	O
in	O
a	O
cloud	O
environment	O
,	O
where	O
utilized	O
by	O
multiple	O
users	O
with	O
different	O
applications	B-Application
sharing	O
the	O
same	O
core	O
,	O
they	O
are	O
not	O
able	O
to	O
adjust	O
to	O
changing	O
workloads	O
,	O
compromising	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
comparison	O
,	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processors	I-General_Concept
offer	O
80	O
and	O
128	O
cores	O
and	O
are	O
single	O
threaded	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
for	O
simultaneous	O
connections	O
in	O
a	O
cloud	O
environment	O
resulting	O
in	O
scalability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
processors	O
are	O
also	O
smaller	O
with	O
more	O
efficient	O
power	O
usage	O
and	O
can	O
run	O
both	O
enterprise	O
and	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
applications	B-Application
,	O
making	O
them	O
more	O
cost	O
effective	O
than	O
other	O
alternatives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processors	I-General_Concept
are	O
a	O
useful	O
option	O
for	O
data	B-Operating_System
centers	I-Operating_System
,	O
which	O
are	O
predicted	O
to	O
use	O
11percent	O
of	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
electricity	O
by	O
2030	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ampere	O
Computing	O
,	O
founded	O
in	O
2018	O
,	O
released	O
a	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processor	I-General_Concept
in	O
2020	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
That	O
processor	O
,	O
the	O
Ampere	O
Altra	O
,	O
and	O
its	O
successor	O
,	O
the	O
Ampere	O
Altra	O
Max	O
,	O
are	O
used	O
by	O
Oracle	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Tencent	O
,	O
Alibaba	O
,	O
and	O
ByteDance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2021	O
,	O
Alibaba	O
released	O
its	O
Yitian	O
710	O
processor	O
as	O
a	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processor	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2022	O
,	O
Ampere	O
announced	O
a	O
new	O
custom-designed	O
core	O
and	O
AMD	O
and	O
Intel	O
announced	O
they	O
were	O
working	O
on	O
their	O
own	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
designs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hewlett	O
Packard	O
Enterprise	O
also	O
announced	O
a	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
server	O
based	O
on	O
Ampere	O
's	O
cloud-native	B-General_Concept
processors	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
