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— AMD (@AMD) October 11, 2024
AMD has launched a new range of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators and networking solutions, intensifying its competition with market leader Nvidia in the rapidly growing AI chip sector. The global AI chip market, valued at $123 billion in 2023, is projected to reach $311 billion by 2028. The AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators, built on the company’s CDNA 3 architecture, are designed for AI tasks such as training and inference of large language models.
AMD claims the MI325X provides superior performance compared to competing products.
The launch of 5th Gen AMD EPYC is raising the bar according to @Tobias_Writes – with double-digit IPC gains up to 192 cores, and clock speeds reaching 5 GHz.
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— AMD (@AMD) October 11, 2024
Production shipments of the MI325X are planned for the fourth quarter of 2024, with system availability from partners including Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo expected in the first quarter of 2025. AMD also previewed its next-generation Instinct MI350 series accelerators, based on the CDNA 4 architecture.
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1844514750413357102
These are slated for release in the second half of 2025 and are projected to offer a 35x improvement in inference performance compared to AMD’s CDNA 3-based accelerators.
amd unveils advanced ai accelerators
To address the networking requirements of AI infrastructure, AMD introduced the Pensando Salina Data Processing Unit (DPU) and the Pensando Pollara 400 Network Interface Card (NIC).
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1844440815067861063
Both networking products are currently being sampled by customers and are expected to be available in the first half of 2025. AMD also announced the availability of the fifth generation of its EPYC processors, formerly codenamed ‘Turin,’ describing it as the world’s best server CPU for enterprise, AI, and cloud. The top-of-the-line 192-core CPU, according to AMD, delivers up to 2.7 times the performance compared to its competitors.
Dr. Lisa Su, AMD Chair and CEO, commented, “The data center and AI represent significant growth opportunities for AMD, and we are building strong momentum for our EPYC and AMD Instinct processors across a growing set of customers.”
AMD’s new suite of AI hardware is a direct challenge to Nvidia’s dominance in the sector and underscores the company’s strategic push into the AI infrastructure market. If AMD’s AI chips are seen by developers and cloud giants as close substitutes for Nvidia’s products, it could put pricing pressure on Nvidia.
