Monday, June 19, 2023

AI chip race heats up as AMD introduces rival to Nvidia AI chip technology

Good news! Competition is good, more competition is better!

More and cheaper AI chips will help to drive advances in AI! 

"Advanced Micro Devices has revealed a new artificial intelligence chip in its race to compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia in supplying the foundation for a boom in AI-fueled business tools. ..."

From the company's news release:
"... AMD AI Platform – The Pervasive AI Vision
Today [6/13/2023], AMD unveiled a series of announcements showcasing its AI Platform strategy ...
Introducing the World’s Most Advanced Accelerator for Generative AI4. AMD revealed new details of the AMD Instinct™ MI300 Series accelerator family, including the introduction of the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator, the world’s most advanced accelerator for generative AI. The MI300X is based on the next-gen AMD CDNA™ 3 accelerator architecture and supports up to 192 GB of HBM3 memory to provide the compute and memory efficiency needed for large language model training and inference for generative AI workloads. With the large memory of AMD Instinct MI300X, customers can now fit large language models such as Falcon-40, a 40B parameter model on a single, MI300X accelerator5. AMD also introduced the AMD Instinct™ Platform, which brings together eight MI300X accelerators into an industry-standard design for the ultimate solution for AI inference and training. The MI300X is sampling to key customers starting in Q3. AMD also announced that the AMD Instinct MI300A, the world’s first APU Accelerator for HPC and AI workloads, is now sampling to customers. ..."

AI chip race heats up as AMD introduces rival to Nvidia technology

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