AMD FSR 3 "Frame Generation" technology can now be enabled in any FSR 2 game with a leaked mod and is supported across both NVIDIA & AMD GPUs.
07.12.2023 - 10:51 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Lisa Su
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., taking aim at a burgeoning market dominated by Nvidia Corp., unveiled new so-called accelerator chips that it said will be able to run artificial intelligence software faster than rival products.
The company introduced a long-anticipated lineup called the MI300 at an event Wednesday held in San Jose, California. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su also gave an eye-popping forecast for the size of the AI chip industry, saying it could climb to more than $400 billion in the next four years. That's more than twice as high as a projection AMD gave in August, showing how rapidly expectations are changing for AI hardware.
The launch is one of the most important in AMD's five-decade history, setting up a showdown with Nvidia in the red-hot market for AI accelerators. Such chips help develop AI models by bombarding them with data, a task they handle more adeptly than traditional computer processors.
Building AI systems that rival human intelligence — considered the holy grail of computing — is now within reach, Su said in an interview. But deployment of the technology is still only just beginning. It will take time to assess the impact on productivity and other aspects of the economy, she said.
“The truth is we're so early,” Su said. “This is not a fad. I believe it.”
AMD is showing increasing confidence that the MI300 lineup can win over some of the biggest names in technology, potentially diverting billions in spending toward the company. Customers using the processors will include Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc., AMD said.
Nvidia shares dropped 2.3% to $455.03 in New York on Wednesday, a sign investors see the new chip as a threat. Still, AMD shares didn't see a commensurate increase. On a day when tech stocks were generally down, the shares fell 1.3% to $116.82.
Surging demand for Nvidia chips by data center operators helped propel that company's shares this year, sending its market value past $1.1 trillion. The big question is how long it will essentially have the accelerator market to itself.
AMD sees an opening: Large language models — used by AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT — need a huge amount of computer memory, and that's where the chipmaker believes it has an advantage.
The new AMD chip has more than 150 billion transistors and 2.4 times as much memory as Nvidia's H100, the current market leader. It also has 1.6 as much memory bandwidth, further boosting performance, AMD said.
Su said that the new chip is equal to Nvidia's H100 in its ability to train AI software and much better at inference — the process of running that software once it's ready for real-world use.
While the company expressed confidence in its product's performance, Su said it won't
AMD FSR 3 "Frame Generation" technology can now be enabled in any FSR 2 game with a leaked mod and is supported across both NVIDIA & AMD GPUs.
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