Radeon Instinct
Alongside their Zen CPU architecture and RDNA client GPU architecture updates, AMD this afternoon is also updating their roadmap for their CDNA server GPU architecture and related Instinct products. And while CPUs and client GPUs are arguably on a rather straightforward path for the next two years, AMD intends to shake up its server GPU offerings in a big way. Let’s start first with AMD’s server GPU architectural roadmap. Following AMD’s current CDNA 2 architecture, which is being used in the MI200 series Instinct Accelerators, will be CDNA 3. And unlike AMD’s other roadmaps, the company isn’t offering a two-year view here. Instead, the server GPU roadmap only goes out one year – to 2023 – with AMD’s next server GPU architecture set to launch...
AMD Releases Instinct MI210 Accelerator: CDNA 2 On a PCIe Card
With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game...
39 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2022AMD Announces Instinct MI200 Accelerator Family: Taking Servers to Exascale and Beyond
AMD today is formally unveiling their AMD Instinct MI200 family of server accelerators. Based on AMD’s new CDNA 2 architecture, the MI200 family is the capstone AMD’s server GPU...
61 by Ryan Smith on 11/8/2021AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund: Initial $15m Donation of EPYC and Radeon Hardware
One element to the recent pandemic has been the number of organizations banding together to unite for specific research into SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We are in an era now...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/16/2020Microsoft Now Offers Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines with AMD EPYC & Radeon Instinct
AMD’s 2nd Generation EPYC processors have gained a strong recognition among cloud computing companies, and today numerous instances are powered by AMD’s latest server CPUs. By contrast, however, the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2020AMD Moves From Infinity Fabric to Infinity Architecture: Connecting Everything to Everything
Another element to AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2020 was the disclosure of how the company intends to evolve its interconnect strategy with its Infinity Fabric (IF). The plan over...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020AMD Pushing the AMD+AMD Strategy with Executive Promotions
Today AMD is announcing some realignment of its executive team along with some promotions. The idea behind the changes boils down to AMD wanting to focus its efforts on...
85 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019Naples, Rome, Milan, Zen 4: An Interview with AMD CTO, Mark Papermaster
At AMD’s Next Horizon event this week, the company disclosed for the first time the layout of its next generation EPYC processor, the new Vega Radeon Instinct datacenter compute...
59 by Ian Cutress on 11/12/2018AMD Announces Radeon Instinct MI60 & MI50 Accelerators: Powered By 7nm Vega
As part of this morning’s Next Horizon event, AMD formally announced the first two accelerator cards based on the company’s previously revealed 7nm Vega GPU. Dubbed the Radeon Instinct...
26 by Ryan Smith on 11/6/2018AMD Demos 7nm Vega GPU: Betting Big on Machine Learning for Radeon Instinct; Shipping This Year
In a fairly unexpected move, AMD formally demonstrated at Computex its previously-roadmapped 7nm-built Vega GPU. As per AMD's roadmaps on the subject, the chip will be used for AMD’s...
29 by Anton Shilov on 6/6/2018Getting Radeon Vega Everywhere: An Exclusive Media Interview at AMD Tech Day, with CEO Dr. Lisa Su
In what is becoming an annual tradition, during AMD’s Tech Day here at CES we were given the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO...
65 by Ian Cutress on 1/24/2018AMD Announces Radeon Instinct: GPU Accelerators for Deep Learning, Coming In 2017
With the launch of their Polaris family of GPUs earlier this year, much of AMD’s public focus in this space has been on the consumer side of matters. However...
39 by Ryan Smith on 12/12/2016