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AI chip race heats up as AMD unveils rival to Nvidia-world’s most advanced accelerator for GAI
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AI chip race heats up as AMD unveils rival to Nvidia-world’s most advanced accelerator for GAI

[ad_1] Advanced Micro Devices has revealed a new artificial intelligence chip in its race to compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia in supplying the foundation for a boom in AI-fueled business tools.The semiconductor company, based in Santa Clara, California, described its new MI300X chip as “the world's most advanced accelerator for generative AI.” It's expected to attract interest from big cloud providers such as Amazon or Microsoft, but AMD hasn't specified which cloud provider might use it. CFRA senior equity analyst Angelo Zino predicted this month that that AMD's MI300 processor “will see significant interest from cloud providers and vie with NVIDIA's Grace Hopper Superchip.” “AMD's stronger partnership with Microsoft should also drive upside, as it is reportedly cited to be developi...
Qualcomm, Nvidia spar for top spot in AI chip efficiency tests
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Qualcomm, Nvidia spar for top spot in AI chip efficiency tests

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence chips from Qualcomm Inc beat Nvidia Corp in two out of three measures of power efficiency in a new set of test data published on Wednesday.Nvidia dominates the market for training AI models with huge amounts of data. But after those AI models are trained, they are put to wider use in what is called "inference" by doing tasks like generating text responses to prompts and deciding whether an image contains a cat. Analysts believe that the market for data center inference chips will grow quickly as businesses put AI technologies into their products, but companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google are already exploring how to keep the lid on the extra costs that doing so will add. One of those major costs is electricity, and Qualcomm has used its history designing...