Oracle Corp. said its industry-leading database software can be used with a new type of processor for the first time in decades, another challenge to the dominance of Intel Corp.’s technology in the lucrative data center market.
The latest version of the database software can now be used on servers with chips from Ampere Computing, Oracle said Wednesday in a blog post. Customers can run the database on Oracle’s cloud service or on-premises servers with Ampere’s processors that use technology from UK-based Arm Ltd.
“The eco-friendly and energy-efficient architecture of Arm technology, and specifically Ampere processors, has made it popular in hyperscale cloud data centers,” Oracle said in the post. Ampere is a five-year-old startup based in Intel’s hometown of Santa Clara, California.
Previously, Oracle’s database could work with processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Intel has lost its once-iron grip on the data center processor market, where its share had topped 99%. AMD has made gains with new offerings, and companies such as top cloud provider Amazon.com Inc. have built their own chips, using Arm’s technology.
