Lisa Su, chair and top executive of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), showcased the new accelerator chips during the AMD Advancing AI gathering in San Jose, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. AMD revealed new accelerator chips that are said to outperform competitor products in running artificial intelligence software efficiently.
On Monday, AMD introduced cutting-edge artificial intelligence chips, aiming to solidify its position in the market amidst competition with Nvidia and Intel.
“AI stands as our top priority and we are ushering in an incredibly thrilling phase for the industry as AI revolutionizes nearly every sector, enhances our living standards, and transforms the entire computing landscape,” affirmed chair and CEO, Lisa Su, at the Computex tech conference in Taipei.
Presenting at the keynote, Su unwrapped the Ryzen AI 300 series catered for the next-gen AI laptops, poised to compete head-to-head with Intel’s upcoming Lunar Lake and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X. These chips will also power laptops embedded with Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Copilot.
Furthermore, Su disclosed the latest Ryzen 9000 series tailored for desktops, labeling them as “the leading consumer PC processors globally” for gaming and content development.
Both series are set to release in July, following AMD’s April revelation of new processors capable of handling AI workloads – the Ryzen Pro 8040 for laptops and the Ryzen Pro 8000 for desktops.
Chip manufacturers are in a race to unleash swifter and more potent processors to stay competitive in the AI arena. Nvidia unravelled its subsequent generation of AI chips titled “Rubin” to succeed the preceding “Blackwell” model, introduced just this March.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang committed to an annual release of new AI chip technology, surpassing the company’s prior biennial schedule. Similarly, AMD plans to introduce new AI chip technology every year.
AMD detailed its data center chip roadmap on Monday, with the Instinct MI325X accelerators – an enhanced iteration of the MI300 series – anticipated for availability in the fourth quarter. The Instinct MI350 series, constructed on future-generation architecture, is earmarked for 2025, while the Instinct MI400 series is slated for release in 2026.
Su also provided a sneak peek of the latest fifth-generation EPYC server processors, scheduled to launch in the latter part of this year, to sustain the leading-edge performance and efficacy of the AMD EPYC processor family.
Similar to Nvidia, AMD does not fabricate its own chips. Instead, it entrusts the production of its chips to foundries, primarily to the world’s largest contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
The Ryzen AI 300, Ryzen 9000, and 5th-gen EPYC chips will be forged on the latest “Zen 5” architecture.
“Zen 5 will be ubiquitous, found from supercomputers to data centers and personal computers,” Su highlighted.
