AMD Launches New AI Chips, Gaining Support from Tech Giants
Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI Plan to Use AMD's New AI Chips, Challenging Nvidia's Market Dominance
- AMD has launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the Instinct MI300X and MI300A, aimed at rivaling Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.
- Tech giants Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI have expressed their intention to use AMD's new AI chips, indicating a potential shift in the market.
- AMD's new chips are said to offer more memory capacity and compute power compared to Nvidia's H100 HGX platform, potentially leading to cost savings for AI models.
- Despite the promising hardware, AMD's success in the AI chip market may hinge on its software support, where Nvidia currently has an advantage with its CUDA platform.
- AMD's shares rose significantly following the launch, suggesting investor confidence in the company's ability to capture a portion of the AI chip market.