AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a semiconductor company specializing in high-performance computing, graphics, and adaptive computing solutions. Founded in 1969, AMD has grown into a global leader in the data center, embedded, gaming, and PC markets.

AMD's product portfolio includes microprocessors, graphics processing units (GPUs), and AI accelerators. The company offers processors under the AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen AI, AMD Ryzen PRO, AMD Ryzen Threadripper, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, and AMD PRO A-Series brands. Graphics products are marketed under the AMD Radeon and AMD Embedded Radeon brands, while professional graphics are offered under the AMD Radeon Pro brand. Additionally, AMD provides AI and general-purpose compute infrastructure for hyperscale providers.

A key component of AMD's AI hardware offerings is the Instinct series of accelerators, designed to deliver high performance for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The MI300 series, based on the CDNA 3 architecture, features the Accelerator Complex Die (XCD), integrating GPU computational elements with cache hierarchy. The MI300X model, for instance, offers 192 GB of HBM3 memory and 5.3 terabytes per second of bandwidth, making it suitable for large-scale AI applications.

Complementing its hardware, AMD provides the ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) software platform, an open-source stack that includes programming models, tools, compilers, libraries, and runtimes for AI and HPC solution development on AMD GPUs. ROCm supports all AMD Instinct accelerator models and is optimized for generative AI and HPC applications, facilitating the migration of existing code into the ROCm environment.

AMD's AI hardware and software solutions have been adopted by various enterprises and research institutions. For example, Pegatron unveiled a high-performance AI rack utilizing 128 AMD MI350X GPUs, achieving a theoretical peak of 1,177 PFLOPs of FP4 compute power. Additionally, AMD's Instinct accelerators and ROCm platform have been integrated into supercomputing systems like Frontier, which is based on the MI250X GPUs.