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Nov. 19 - IBM announced yesterday (Nov. 18) that it has entered into a partnership with AMD to deploy AMD Instinct™ MI300X gas pedals as a service on the IBM Cloud. The service, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, is designed to improve performance and energy efficiency for enterprise customers in generative AI models and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. IBM says that through this partnership, its ...

AMD recently acquired AI infrastructure company ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, aiming to increase the market adoption of its own Instinct data center chip. ZT Systems is a partner of big AI companies such as Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, specializing in providing customized computing infrastructure. This acquisition is undoubtedly an important strategic layout for AMD. AMD CEO Lisa Su said that this acquisition will greatly accelerate the deployment of AMD AI solutions. …

AMD officially announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Silo AI, the largest private AI laboratory in Europe, for approximately US$665 million (currently approximately RMB 4.773 billion), paid in full cash. At this point, Silo AI's scientists and engineers have officially joined the AMD family. AMD's emphasis on the field of AI is self-evident. This acquisition is an important step in its strategic layout, aiming to further strengthen the company's leadership in AI and related technologies. Like technology giants such as Google, Meta, and Apple, AMD …

Chip giant AMD announced Wednesday that it will spend about $665 million (currently about Rs 4,843 million) in cash to acquire Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI, a move aimed at boosting its AI chip capabilities to compete with industry leader Nvidia. Building and training large-scale language models is a challenge even for tech giants, and AMD said the Silo AI acquisition will help it improve the development and deployment of AMD-powered AI models and help potential customers build complex AI models using AMD's chips. The same...

At the annual Computex technology conference, GPU manufacturers showcased their latest technological achievements. Among them, Nvidia and AMD performed particularly well. Nvidia showcased the mass-produced Blackwell chip at the conference and announced its product roadmap for the next three years, including the next-generation Rubin AI platform. AMD CEO Lisa Su showcased AMD's CPU, GPU products and future roadmap, including the desktop Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, AI PC chips, data center chips and GPUs based on the new Zen 5 architecture. …

AMD recently released a series of benchmarks, claiming that its Ryzen mobile 7040 Phoenix series and 8040 series processors can outperform Intel's latest Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs by up to 79% in running large language models (LLMs). This test compares the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processors, both of which are equipped with hardware neural network processing units (NPUs). AM…

On March 28, according to a report by the Nikkei today, Nvidia's cutting-edge image processing semiconductor (GPU) H200 is now available. H200 is a semiconductor for the AI field, and its performance exceeds the current flagship H100. According to the performance evaluation results released by Nvidia, taking the processing speed of Meta's large language model Llama 2 as an example, the processing speed of generative AI derived answers of H200 is up to 45% higher than that of H100. Market research organization Omdia once said that in 2022…

According to a recent survey, a large number of artificial intelligence professionals are planning to switch from Nvidia to AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs. Jeff Tatarchuk, co-founder of TensorWave, revealed that they conducted an independent survey covering 82 engineers and artificial intelligence professionals. Among them, about 50% of respondents said they were confident in the AMD Instinct MI300X GPU because compared to Nvidia's H100 series products, the MI300X …

According to Bloomberg, AMD tried to approve an artificial intelligence chip specifically for the Chinese market, but was rejected by US officials. People familiar with the matter revealed that AMD hopes to obtain approval from the US Department of Commerce to sell the chip to Chinese customers, but US officials believe that the chip is still highly advanced technology, so AMD must obtain permission from the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce before it can be sold. This stricter control has also affected the sales of processors designed specifically for China by Nvidia, another leading artificial intelligence chip manufacturer, which has complied with the 2022 version of the export regulations. For…

Source @Kepler_L2 revealed that AMD will launch a revised version of the AI accelerator MI300 using HBM3e to compete with Nvidia B100 at a low price, and AMD's next-generation Instinct MI400 accelerator will be released in 2025. AMD announced two Instinct MI300 accelerators in 2023, namely the pure GPU MI300X and the APU architecture MI300A, both of which use HBM3 memory with a capacity of 19…

AI-enabled personal computers (AI PCs) are expected to revolutionize the PC market landscape in the next three to five years, becoming a watershed moment for the industry, reveals a new study by Canalys. The study further states that AI PCs will account for more than 60% of the PC market by 2027, with business applications leading the way. An AI PC is defined as a personal computer equipped with a dedicated chipset/block to host end-side AI runtime loads. While almost all PCs can run cloud-based AI applications, AI PCs are unique because they are equipped with end-side neural processing...

As the shortage of graphics processing units (GPUs) continues, companies and venture capitalists are scrambling to buy these chips to run powerful AI models. Nvidia, a chip giant at the forefront of the AI boom, announced plans to triple production of the GPUs that are driving the AI revolution. Other hardware startups are also scrambling to develop AI processors. Insider has selected the top 100 people making AI smarter, and here is the ranking in the hardware field. These leaders come from big companies such as Google, Nvidia, Intel, etc.

Shares of AMD closed up more than 9% on Wednesday, making the jump a day after the company beat top- and bottom-line earnings estimates and gave an optimistic forecast for its artificial intelligence chip business in 2024. AMD posted earnings of 70 cents per share, which on an adjusted basis was slightly higher than the estimate from LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv, which was 68 cents per share. Revenue also beat slightly, totaling $5.8 billion versus an estimate of $5.7 billion. A comment made by AMD's CEO ZF Su on Tuesday night seemed to have stirred the w...