AMD launches its complete ecosystem of AI solutions

At the Advancing AI event in San Jose, AMD announced the availability of the AMD Instinct MI300 family of accelerators and the AMD ROCm 6 open software ecosystem, delivering new advancements in generative AI. AMD Chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, showcased industry partners, including Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Microsoft, Oracle Cloud, and others, who are using AMD AI hardware to enable high-performance computing and generative AI applications across verticals.

“AI is the future of computing and AMD is uniquely positioned to power the end-to-end infrastructure that will define this AI era, from massive cloud installations to enterprise clusters and AI-enabled intelligent embedded devices and PCs,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said while launching these products.

For the new Instinct MI300 GPUs, the company is witnessing a strong pull. She claimed that MI300 GPUs are the highest performance accelerators in the world for generative AI.

“We are also building significant momentum for our data centre AI solutions with the largest cloud companies, the industry’s top server providers, and the most innovative AI startups who we are working closely with to rapidly bring Instinct MI300 solutions to market that will dramatically accelerate the pace of innovation across the entire AI ecosystem,” she said.

While talking about the potential growth in the AI space, she said that the market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 70%.     

At present the market size is USD 45 billion and is expected to grow to USD 400 billion by 2027, as per some estimates.

AMD Instinct MI300 Series accelerators are designed with the most advanced technologies, delivering leadership performance, and will be in large scale cloud and enterprise deployments, said AMD President Victor Peng.

“By leveraging our leadership hardware, software and open ecosystem approach, cloud providers, OEMs and ODMs are bringing to market technologies that empower enterprises to adopt and deploy AI-powered solutions,” he said. 

The new platform is built on an industry standard Open Compute Project design with eight MI300X accelerators to offer an industry-leading 1.5TB of HBM3 memory capacity.

The company also announced the new mobile processors named AMD Ryzen 8040 Series which delivers a robust AI compute capability. It has also announced Ryzen AI 1.0, a software stack that enables developers to easily deploy apps that use pretrained models to add AI capabilities for Windows applications.

AMD also announced that the upcoming next-gen ‘Strix Point’ CPUs, planned to launch in 2024, will include the AMD XDNA 2 architecture designed to deliver more than a three times increase in AI compute performance compared to the prior generation that will enable new generative AI experiences.

The company also unveiled the latest version of the open-source software stack for AMD Instinct Graphic Processing Units (GPUs), ROCm 6, which has been optimized for generative AI, particularly large language models.