And with Asrock Rack Bundle ALTRAD8UD-1L2T
Current mainstream consumer processors from AMD and Intel offer a maximum of 16 and 24 cores, respectively. You can buy very expensive Threadrippers with up to 96 cores. Or you can buy a motherboard with a 64-core CPU already installed for $1,500.
The ASRock board with an Ampere processor has gone on sale. The Asrock Rack Bundle ALTRAD8UD-1L2T board has a Deep Micro-ATX format and an LGA 4926 socket. It is sold with an already installed Ampere Q64-22 CPU, which has 64 cores. This Ampere line also includes 128-core models, but it is unclear whether such a CPU can be purchased separately.
Originally Ampere Alta — These are server processors based on Arm architecture. The specifically specified CPU belongs to the first generation. The current Ampere already has 192-core chips.
As for the motherboard, it has eight RAM slots, four PCIe slots and is characterized by dimensions of 244 × 267 mm.