From ComputerWorld: AMD’s big Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday underlined how quickly the microprocessor industry has pivoted to artificial intelligence (AI) as its main sales pitch.
The company offered three hardware announcements across its processor line-up, each appealing to different parts of the AI market.
The first was the new Instinct MI325X AI accelerator chip, a datacenter-oriented GPU which ups performance on every metric compared to last year’s MI300. The company also showed off its fifth-generation EPYC processors for the enterprise cloud and datacenter sector. And it unveiled the new Ryzen AI PRO 300 series, a family of processors for mobile PCs aimed at enterprise buyers.
Mobile chips have traditionally been low power (and lower performance versions) of their desktop equivalents, but with the focus on AI, that distinction is fast disappearing.
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