
AMD Moves Up Instinct MI355X Launch As Datacenter Biz Hits Records
When we first started The Next Platform a decade ago, there was not really much of a reason to cover the company’s datacenter efforts. …
When we first started The Next Platform a decade ago, there was not really much of a reason to cover the company’s datacenter efforts. …
Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. …
If there is any market on Earth that is sorely in need of intense some competition, it is the datacenter GPU market that is driving the AI revolution. …
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …
Training AI models is expensive, and the world can tolerate that to a certain extent so long as the cost inference for these increasingly complex transformer models can be driven down. …
It is beginning to look like AMD’s Instinct datacenter GPU accelerator business is going to do a lot better in 2024 than many had expected and that the company’s initial forecasts given back in October anticipated. …
There is nothing quite like great hardware to motivate people to create and tune software to take full advantage of it during a boom time. …
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
The great thing about the Cambrian explosion in compute that has been forced by the end of Dennard scaling of clock frequencies and Moore’s Law lowering in the cost of transistors is not only that we are getting an increasing diversity of highly tuned compute engines and broadening SKU stacks across those engines, but also that we are getting many different interpretations of the CPU, GPU, DPU, and FPGA themes. …
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