AMD is targeting data center workloads as the AI PC arms race continues
AMD has unveiled a raft of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled hardware, including its 5th Gen AMD EPYC server processors and the Ryzen AI 300 series for mobile devices.
The announcements, delivered by AMD’s chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su on stage at Computex 2024, came as part of the unveiling of its expanded roadmap for its Instinct product line of AI accelerators, which features a number of 2024 release windows.
The company’s 5th-generation EPYC server processors are slated to release in the second-half of 2024, for instance, while the AMD Instinct MI325X accelerator is slated for Q4. Further down the line is 2025’s CDNA 4 architecture, making a first appearance in the Instinct MI350 series.AMD’s ‘multi-generational’ AI roadmap
Su explained the company’s plans to deliver new AI products and performance increases on ‘an annual cadence’, with a particular emphasis on performance and memory for generative AI workloads, where AMD claims of being ‘industry-leading’, with the AMD Instinct MI325X having ‘288GB ultra-fast HBM3E memory’.
However, the company does then undercut this by claiming that the MI350 series will be 35x faster than the 300 series, and a MI400 series is already penciled in for 2026.
