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GPU cloud startup Vultr secures AMD backing in $333 million investment round
Cloud infrastructure company Vultr has raised $333 million in funding as part of an investment round that values the firm at $3.5 billion. Founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky and self-funded until now, Vultr operates a global, full-stack AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform with 32 cloud data center regions around the world. Led by LuminArx Capital Management and AMD…
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Researchers claim an AMD security flaw could let hackers access encrypted data
Researchers have exposed an issue with the memory implementation on AMD’s data center chips that could threaten the integrity of data, but the chipmaker has hit back at the claims. In a paper due to be presented at IEEE in 2025, researchers from University of Lübeck, KU Leven, and University of Birmingham highlighted a potential weakness in AMD’s secure encrypted…
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What is AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and how does it work?
Have you come across the term AMD FSR on the internet or maybe somewhere in your favorite game’s graphics settings? Are you wondering what AMD FSR is? Or maybe you want to enable FSR, but you’re not sure if your graphics card is on the AMD FSR-supported GPU list? If you want to understand the reasons behind this technology, why…
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Recall arrives for Intel and AMD devices after months of controversy
Microsoft is finally rolling out its controversial Recall feature after months of delays sparked by security and privacy concerns. Recall takes a screenshot every few seconds, saving the images in a protected folder to make it easier to find what you were working on even if you can’t remember what application you were using. These snapshots can be searched for…
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Windows 11 Recall arrives for AMD and Intel Copilot+ PCs (build 26120.2510)
Windows 11 build 26120.2510 expands Recall and Click to Do to AMD and Intel Copilot+ PCs. The update also rolls out Cocreator for Paint and Restyle Image and Image Creator for Photos for AMD and Intel Copilot+ PCs. In addition, devices in the Dev Channel will receive the new visual improvements for Windows Hello, and the System Tray will show…
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Microsoft expands Recall preview to Intel and AMD Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft is now testing its AI-powered Recall feature on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs enrolled in the Windows 11 Insider program. The company started rolling out the first preview of Recall to Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs last month after two delays in June and October. First introduced in May, Recall is a Windows feature that captures screenshots of active windows every…
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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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