AMD specific news
AMD’s AI GPU Strategy Is Paying Off Big (Proactive)edit
Anush Elangovan highlighted that ROCm 7 delivers significant AI performance gains, offering over 3.5x faster inference and 3x faster training, along with major enhancements in usability, developer support, and scalability for handling large-scale AI workloads.
Publication : Analytics India Mag
AMD: Performance and Image Quality Details for INT8 Version of FSR 4 Upscaler on Older RDNA GPUs Surface Onlineedit
Performance and image quality details for AMD’s leaked FSR 4 INT8 upscaler have surfaced online, pointing to improved upscaling quality and moderate performance gains on older RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs.
Publication : IGN
Oracle and AMD Expand Partnership to Launch AI Supercluster With 50,000 GPUs (Proactive)edit
Breakthrough compute and memory: Helps customers achieve faster results, tackle more complex workloads, and reduce the need for model partitioning by increasing memory bandwidth for AI training models. Each AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPU will provide up to 432 GB of HBM4 and 20 TB/s of memory bandwidth, enabling customers to train and infer models that are 50 percent larger than previous generations entirely in-memory.
Publication : Digital Terminal
AMD’s AI GPU Strategy Is Paying Off Bigedit
The Lisa Su-led chipmaker, days after announcing a deal to deploy 6 GW of compute, potentially including its GPUs, for OpenAI, landed another major deal with Oracle. This deal involves a commitment to deploy 50,000 of the upcoming AMD MI450 GPUs starting in Q3 2026, with further expansion planned into 2027 and beyond.
Publication : Analytics India Mag
AMD releases yet another heartwarming festive campaign to celebrate Diwaliedit
This Diwali, AMD, teams up with Social Panga and Yellow Shutter, to premiere a heartwarming film that beautifully blends technology with tradition. The film is a celebration of what truly matters during the festive season: the time spent with loved ones and how AMD’s high-performance processors make that possible.
Publication : Business News This Week
AMD Accelerates AI Momentum with Oracle Deal, Helios System, and ROCm 7 Overhaul (Proactive)edit
AMD is gaining strong ground in the AI compute race, announcing a series of major partnerships and product innovations that underscore its ambition to challenge NVIDIA’s market dominance.
Publication : CXO Digit Pulse
Competition in news
NVIDIA DGX Spark Features MediaTek Co-Designed GB10 Superchip for Desktop AI Supercomputingedit
The GB10 collaboration builds on MediaTek s work with NVIDIA across multiple verticals, bringing advanced AI capabilities to hyperscale data centers, IoT applications, and software defined vehicles MediaTek partners with leading brands to turn breakthrough ideas into products that scale, from everyday devices to enterprise and cloud systems
Publication : Digital Terminal
NVIDIA CEO Delivers World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer to Elon Musk at SpaceXedit
In a symbolic meeting of innovation and ambition, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally delivered the DGX Spark, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, to Elon Musk at SpaceX s Starbase facility in Texas.
Publication : Var India
MediaTek and NVIDIA unveil GB10 superchip to power next-gen personal AI supercomputersedit
MediaTek has deepened its collaboration with NVIDIA through the codesign of the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, the core of NVIDIA s newly launched DGX Spark — a personal AI supercomputer that brings the power of large model development to the desktop.
Publication : CRN
Broadcom to launch new networking chip, as battle with Nvidia intensifiesedit
Broadcom to launch new networking chip, as battle with Nvidia intensifies Broadcom has worked on multiple generations of Google’s Tensor processor, which Google began designing more than a decade ago.
Publication : The Indian Express
BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strikes $40 billion data center deal to fuel AI boomedit
An investor group including BlackRock Microsoft and Nvidia is buying one of the world’s biggest data center operators with nearly 80 sites in a deal worth $40 billion to secure coveted computing capacity for artificial intelligence
Publication : The Economic Times
Crescent Island: Intel’s bold bet to rival Nvidia in AI chipsedit
Intel has officially thrown down the gauntlet in the AI accelerator race. With its newly announced Crescent Island GPU, the chipmaker is positioning itself as a serious contender in the growing market for inference focused AI hardware – a segment currently dominated by Nvidia.
Publication : Digit
Intel signals return to AI race with new chip to launch next yearedit
The new chip, called Crescent Island, is the struggling U.S. chipmaker’s latest attempt to capitalize on the frenzy in AI spending that has generated billions in revenue for AMD and Nvidia. The company’s plans trail behind competitors and represent the significant challenge Intel’s executives and engineers face to capture a meaningful portion of the market for AI chips and systems.
Publication : ET CIO
BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strike $40-bn AI data centre dealedit
OpenAI, the startup at the heart of the AI boom, struck deals in recent weeks with chipmakers Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom that may cost over $1 trillion to secure about 26 gigawatts of computing capacity, enough to power roughly 20 million U.S. homes.
Publication : The Financial Express
Partner in news
Slim brillianceedit
The Dell 14 Plus is powered by the latest AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series CPUs. The review unit features an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 (2.00 GHz) processor with Radeon 860M graphics, 16 GB RAM and 512 GB storage.
Publication : The Hindu Business Line
Industry news
Akamai to build AI inference cloud in India: CEOedit
Global cloud and infrastructure leader Akamai Technologies is investing in building an AI inference cloud in India and plans to deploy Nvidia s latest Blackwell chips by December-end, chief executive Tom Leighton told ET An AI inference cloud is computing infrastructure that brings AI models closer to the edge and processes queries in real time.
Publication : The Economic Times
Google to build mega AI hub in India with $15 billion investmentedit
Google has announced an investment of $15 billion to build a 1-gigawatt data centre and artificial intelligence hub in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The project, to be located on the port city of Vishakhapatnam.
Publication : The Times of India
Airtel, IBM tie up for enterprise cloud solutionsedit
“Enterprises today need to balance modernisation with the growing regulated technology and AI requirements. Through our partnership with Bharti Airtel, clients across India can leverage IBM’s innovative cloud offerings designed for workloads that address their strategic business priorities.
Publication : The Financial Express
First India-made Chip Module Sent to US Firm AOSedit
Out of the Rs 3,307 crore investment required for the OSAT, 50%, which is Rs 1,653.5 crore, will come from the Centre, 20% ( Rs 661.4 crore) from the Gujarat government, and the rest Rs 992.1 crore will be made by the company.
Publication : The Economic Times
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