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AMD to cut 4% of workforce to prioritize AI chip expansion and rival Nvidia
However, on a deeper look, the Q3 results showed both strengths and challenges: while total revenue rose by 18% to $6.8 billion, gaming chip revenue plummeted 69% year-over-year, and embedded chip sales dropped 25%. In its recent earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su underscored that the data center and AI business is now pivotal to the company’s future, expecting a…
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AMD to cut around 1,000 staff to focus on “largest growth opportunities”
AMD has announced a 4% cut to its global workforce as part of a realignment of business priorities. According to reports from CNBC, AMD issued a statement saying it would be taking a number of steps ultimately resulting in a workforce reduction. “As a part of aligning our resources with our largest growth opportunities, we are taking a number of…
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AMD rolls out open-source OLMo LLM, to compete with AI giants – Computerworld
Competitive performance and benchmark success In internal benchmarks, AMD’s OLMo models performed well against similarly sized open-source models, such as TinyLlama-1.1B and OpenELM-1_1B, in multi-task and general reasoning tests, the company claimed. Specifically, its performance increased by over 15% on tasks in GSM8k, a substantial gain attributed to AMD’s multi-phase supervised fine-tuning and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). ‘ In multi-turn…
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Intel’s Gaudi AI chips are far behind Nvidia and AMD, won’t even hit $500M goal
“We will not achieve our target of $500 million in revenue for Gaudi in 2024,” CEO Pat Gelsinger just said on the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call today. Though Intel just launched its recent Gaudi 3 accelerator this past quarter, said Gelsinger, “the overall uptake of Gaudi has been slower than we anticipated as adoption rates were impacted by the…
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Apple’s New M4 Chips Give Intel and AMD a Run for Their Money
Apple just revealed its new high-end processors, the M4 Pro and M4 Max, with “the world’s fastest CPU core” and many other improvements. They will ship first in the new MacBook Pro laptops. The M-series of chips use two types of CPU cores—performance cores for heavy-duty workloads and efficiency cores for everyday tasks. Activating these CPU cores as needed delivers…
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AMD confirms its next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs will launch in early 2025
AMD’s Q3 2024 earnings call today wasn’t bullish on gaming revenue overall, but it did confirm a hot new rumor on GPUs — specifically, the launch of AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 parts early next year. “We are on track to launch the first RDNA4 GPUs in early 2025,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su, and the company confirmed to PCWorld that…
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Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass
The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD’s older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations. The vulnerabilities impact Intel’s 12th, 13th, and 14th chip generations for consumers and the 5th and 6th generation of Xeon processors for servers, along with AMD’s Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 processors.…
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AMD and Intel’s new x86 advisory group looks to tackle Arm, but will it succeed?
Intel and AMD have announced they will partner up to create an ‘x86 ecosystem advisory group’ in a move some experts think will help the pair fight off competition from UK chipmaker Arm. The x86 is a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture that powers most of the world’s CPU market – according to Statista, Intel’s x86 processors made up…
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Intel, AMD unite in new x86 alliance to tackle AI, other challenges
Semiconductor rivals Intel and AMD announced the formation of an x86-processor advisory group that will try to address ever-increasing AI workloads, custom chiplets, and advances in 3D packaging and system architectures. Members of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. Notably missing: TSMC — the world’s largest chipmaker.…
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AMD Reveals Fleet of Chips for Heavy AI Workloads
AMD announced the upcoming release of its most powerful AI chips to date, the Instinct MI325X accelerators, on Thursday. “Our goal is to drive an open industry standard AI ecosystem so that everyone can add their innovation on top,” said Lisa Su, AMD chair and CEO, at the company’s Advancing AI 2024 presentation in San Francisco. The 5th generation Epyc…
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