Announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Uber is partnering with Ampere and Oracle to have more control over how its workloads are running on OCI.
The partnership enables Uber to co-design its chips with the US fabless semiconductor firm.
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According to Ampere chief product officer Jeff Wittich, Uber’s move to Ampere on OCI has reduced the company’s infrastructure costs as well as power consumption by 30 percent.
He added that Ampere and Uber are working hand-in-hand on the chip design. "As we look forward to the future, the common team has been working closely on, what are those future optimizations we can make to further tune the micro-architecture of the CPU, even down to that level, to make sure that all of our future generations of CPUs are also incredibly well suited for Uber.”
According to a release from Oracle, Uber selected the cloud provider in 2023 and has been migrating thousands of microservices, multiple data storage platforms, and dozens of AI models to OCI.
Uber uses OCI Compute with AMD for its trip-serving requests, and has moved a “considerable portion of its stateless workloads” to OCI Computer with Ampere Arm.
“Uber is a prime example of a forward-thinking organization that embraces multi-cloud partnerships to deliver valuable services to its customers,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “We look forward to evolving our cloud partnership with Uber as they continue their rapid growth.”