with regulators earlier this year for an IPO, however, the market has changed dramatically amid larger recession worries and unpredictability.
The company's big differentiator is that it's designed its chips from the ground up with these cloud customers in mind. Ampere's chips are general purpose and can be used in everything from web servers to video encoding machines to computers that are focused on artificial intelligence.Other companies' data-center chips are derived from the first PC chips, James said.
What feels similar to the dotcom bust is the daily, wild swings of the market and reminding oneself not to look at daily trading. From the outset she wanted to build a different kind of semiconductor company. Some 30% of Ampere's workforce is under the age of 27, and 41% of the leadership team is women, she said. The company offers training, particularly leadership training, to help employees build careers.