Dr. Lisa Su, Chair & CEO, AMD
Whether it is AI or HPC, efficient compute plays the central role. As AI suffuses almost every aspect of the automated world, the silicon major AMD, has introduced specialized 5th Gen CPUs (central processing units) for servers, enterprise-grade APUs (Accelerated Processing units) , DPUs (data processing units), NICs (network interface cards) as well as processors for PCs in the global market.
Yes, AMD has launched a plethora of AI-optimized EPYC server CPUs, Instinct MI325X accelerators, AMD Pensando Salina DPUs, AMD Pensando Pollara 400 NICs and AMD Ryzen AI PRO 300 series processors for enterprise PCs.
“The data center and AI represent significant growth opportunities for AMD, and we are building strong momentum for our EPYC and AMD Instinct processors across a growing set of customers,” said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su.
“With our new EPYC CPUs, AMD Instinct GPUs and Pensando DPUs we are delivering leadership compute to power our customers’ most important and demanding workloads. Looking ahead, we see the data center AI accelerator market growing to $500 billion by 2028. We are committed to delivering open innovation at scale through our expanded silicon, software, network and cluster-level solutions,” added Su.
AMD and its partners also showcased how they are deploying AMD AI solutions at scale, the continued ecosystem growth of AMD ROCm open source AI software, and a broad portfolio of new solutions based on AMD Instinct accelerators, EPYC CPUs and Ryzen PRO CPUs.
In the AI era, AMD redefines data center
AMD’s newly launched EPYC 9005 Series processors deliver blistering performance to enable optimized compute solutions for diverse data center needs. Built on the latest ‘Zen 5’ architecture, the lineup offers up to 192 cores and will be available in a wide range of platforms from leading OEMs and ODMs.
On the other hand, AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators delivers high performance and memory capabilities for the most demanding AI workloads. AMD also shared new details on next-gen AMD Instinct MI350 series accelerators expected to launch in the second half of 2025, extending AMD Instinct leadership memory capacity and generative AI performance. AMD has made significant progress developing the AMD Instinct MI400 Series accelerators based on the AMD CDNA Next architecture, planned to be available in 2026.
AMD’s 5th Gen EPYC server CPUs
Interestingly, Google highlighted how AMD EPYC processors power a wide range of instances for AI, high performance, general purpose and confidential computing, including their AI Hypercomputer, a supercomputing architecture designed to maximize AI ROI. Google also announced EPYC 9005 Series-based VMs will be available in early 2025.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure shared how it leverages AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Instinct accelerators and Pensando DPUs to deliver fast, energy efficient compute and networking infrastructure for customers like Uber, Red Bull Powertrains, PayPal and Fireworks AI. OCI announced the new E6 compute platform powered by EPYC 9005 processors.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted Microsoft’s longstanding collaboration and co-innovation with AMD across its product offerings and infrastructure, with MI300X delivering strong performance on Microsoft Azure and GPT workloads.
Leading OEMs Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro are expanding on their highly performant, energy efficient AMD EPYC processor-based lineups with new platforms designed to modernize data centers for the AI era.
Enabling productivity with AI PCs
AMD’s just launched AMD Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors, powering the first Microsoft Copilot+ laptops enabled for the enterprise. The Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processor lineup extends AMD leadership in performance and battery life with the addition of enterprise-grade security and manageability features for business users. The Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors, featuring the new AMD ‘Zen 5’ and AMD XDNA 2 architectures, are the world’s most advanced commercial processors, offering best in class performance for unmatched productivity and an industry leading 55 NPU TOPS of AI performance with the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 processor to process AI tasks locally on Ryzen AI PRO laptops.
OEM partners including HP and Lenovo are expanding their commercial offerings with new PCs powered by Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors, with more than 100 platforms expected to come to market through 2025.
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