Canonical and Ampere announce AmpereOne® SoC certification and other partnership milestones

Ampere and Canonical are pleased to celebrate new milestones in their ongoing partnership including the completion of Canonical’s System-on-Chip (SoC) certification on AmpereOne®, and the extension of the partnership into the AI Platform Alliance, a strategic group of full stack ecosystem partners that provide enterprise-grade curated solutions specifically developed for AI inference use cases. 

The ongoing partnership between Ampere and Canonical will continue to drive AI compute and cloudification forward through efficient, scalable, and sustainable infrastructure. The AmpereOne family delivers excellent performance-per-watt, making these SoCs a strong choice for AI-driven applications where scalability and efficiency matter.  Canonical’s software stack (which includes infrastructure solutions like Canonical OpenStack and MicroCloud) complements Ampere’s hardware by providing a securely designed, flexible, and optimized platform for deploying AI inferencing workloads on Arm architecture.

AmpereOne Ubuntu certification 

Ensuring a consistent, performant, and reliable software stack is critical to accelerating cloud and enterprise datacenter adoption, and the Ubuntu certification of the AmpereOne SoC is an important milestone in this journey. The AmpereOne SoC is Ampere’s latest flagship processor designed for cloud-native workloads. Thanks to Canonical’s rigorous SoC certification program, the AmpereOne platform has undergone extensive validation to guarantee compatibility, and stability with the Ubuntu software stack. 

Additionally, having Ampere-based platforms in Canonical’s certification labs ensures continuous integration and testing, providing customers with confidence that their infrastructure is optimized, certified, and ready for production. This certification is essential for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and cloud providers looking to deploy AmpereOne-based servers at scale through Ubuntu server certification and long-term support.

“The certification of AmpereOne on Ubuntu is a significant milestone for our joint customers allowing them to proceed with confidence on platforms and services built on our products. The Ampere/Canonical partnership reflects our joint commitment to deliver energy-efficient, cloud-optimized solutions based on open source technology using the trusted Ubuntu software stack,” said Sean Varley, Chief Evangelist at Ampere.

AI Platform Alliance collaboration 

The partnership between Ampere and Canonical also extends to a broader industry initiative – the AI Platform Alliance. As active members of the Alliance, both companies are committed to driving innovation and collaboration across the AI ecosystem. The Alliance fosters close cooperation between silicon providers, hardware accelerators, cloud and managed service providers, and system integrators to deliver optimized end-to-end AI platforms. Through this collaboration, Ampere and Canonical are working alongside ecosystem partners to simplify AI deployment, making it easier for developers and enterprises to unlock the full potential of AI on Arm-based platforms.

“Together, Ampere and Canonical are delivering the building blocks for a cloudified, AI-ready, and energy-efficient data center – setting the stage for the next generation of compute infrastructure,” said Youssef Eltoukhy, Silicon Alliances at Canonical.

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About Canonical

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support and services. Our portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone. 

Learn more at https://canonical.com/ 

About Ampere

Ampere is a modern semiconductor company designing the future of cloud computing with the world’s first Cloud Native Processors. Built for the sustainable Cloud with the highest performance and best performance per watt, Ampere processors accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. Ampere Cloud Native Processors provide industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability. 

For more information visit Ampere Computing.

About The AI Platform Alliance

The AI Platform Alliance is a strategic group of full stack ecosystem partners that provide enterprise-grade curated solutions specifically developed for AI inference use cases, and optimized for the industry-leading AI platform from Ampere.  The Alliance offers high performance, open, efficient and sustainable solutions including design-in and ready-to-use AI inference-enabled services that help end customers and digital enterprises overcome the challenges of adapting to a constantly evolving market. For more information, visit https://platformalliance.ai/.