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On 29 September, the AMD announced on 28 September that a final agreement had been signed for the acquisition of the World Labs created by Li Fei. The transactions were paid in equities, valued at approximately $8.2 billion, and were expected to be completed by 2026, after conditions such as regulatory approval had been met. At the end of the deal, Li Fei Fei will be Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of AMD, reporting to CEO Sozito. World Labs develops space intelligence models that also study robotic learning based on text, image and video generation, reconstruction and simulation of interactive 3D environments..

ON 8 JANUARY, ACCORDING TO THE NEWS, DURING CES 2026, DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH BLOOMBERG, THE CHAIRMAN AND CEO SOZIFON MADE IT CLEAR THAT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WAS NOT A FLASHING CONCEPT, BUT A CORE TECHNOLOGY THAT HAD LANDED AND WOULD CONTINUE TO EXPAND. "THERE'S ALWAYS A BAD VOICE OUTSIDE, YET AI IS A REALLY VALUABLE TECHNOLOGY THAT WON'T DISAPPEAR IN A YEAR OR TWO." SUSIFUNG POINTS OUT THAT MILLIONS OF USERS AROUND THE GLOBE HAVE BEEN USING AI IN THEIR DAILY WORK AND LIVES, AND THAT IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE AI USERS WORLDWIDE MAY BE OVER 5 BILLION. FOR AI IS..

ON 23 NOVEMBER, ACCORDING TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, LARGE EXPENDITURES ON DATA CENTRES IN RECENT WEEKS HAVE HEIGHTENED CONCERNS ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BUBBLES. AMD'S SHARE PRICE ROSE BY NEARLY 60% IN OCTOBER, BUT FELL BY ABOUT 20% THIS MONTH. "I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BUBBLES," SAID AMD CEO SOZFUNG IN HIS INTERVIEW, "I DO THINK THOSE WHO HOLD THIS IDEA ARE TOO SHORT-SIGHTED. THEY DON'T REALLY SEE THE POWER OF THIS TECHNOLOGY." SUSIFOU SAYS THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE "BOLD AND BOLD BETS" ARE REAPING THEIR REWARDS, INCLUDING SOARING STOCK PRICES AND THE MARKET..

On October 2, according to CNBC, Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Kevin Scott indicated on Wednesday, local time, that Microsoft's future plan was to use self-study chips mainly in its data centres. This is expected to reduce Microsoft's dependence on mainstream chip manufacturers like Weidar and AMD. Semiconductors, as well as servers located inside data centres, are central to the development of artificial intelligence models and applications. At present, the technology giant, Young Weidar, has a dominant position in this area with its graphic processor (GPU), with a relatively small market share of the competition AMD. No, no, no

On September 10th, referring to reports by the German media ComputerBase, the AMD official exchanged views with participants at the IFA 2025 round table on a range of issues, which naturally would not spare the most popular artificial intelligence topics at present. AMD believes that AI is still undervalued, and that this area will be developed in the medium term in the next three to five years; it is hoped that AI will develop to the same extent as the past Internet, an important tool for human progress. For the local AI cornerstone - Side AI..

In a recent interview with Wired, AMD CEO Zifeng Su said that 'the company's mission is more critical than money' when it comes to attracting top AI talent. Asked in the interview what he thought of Zuckerberg's recent offer of huge salaries to poach employees from AI makers, Su said that he would never offer a billion-dollar compensation package to a potential AMD employee. I think the competition for talent is fierce. While I strongly believe that money is important, frankly, it's not necessarily the most important factor in attracting talent. Sue added...

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- In order to obtain chip export licenses, Nvidia, AMD and the Trump administration have reached an unusual arrangement that includes paying 15% of their China chip sales revenue to the U.S. government, according to the Financial Times. The two chipmakers agreed to the financial arrangement in order to obtain export licenses for the Chinese market, according to a U.S. official and other people familiar with the matter. These licenses were approved last week. The U.S. official said NVIDIA and AMD agreed to pay 15% of their revenues from the sale of H20 and MI308 chips in China to the...

June 14, AMD is working closely with a number of AI startups with the intention of enhancing its software capabilities and designing more advanced chips, according to Reuters. As more and more AI companies look for alternatives to Nvidia chips, AMD has begun to expand its presence, with plans to build more competitive hardware and the acquisition of server maker ZT Systems. But the prerequisite for a successful chip launch is a strong software ecosystem to run AI developers' programs more efficiently, and AMD has acquired several small software companies in recent weeks to enhance its technology," said Reuters. ...

June 13, 2012 - At the end of the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event early this morning, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a surprise appearance on stage. AMD today unveiled its latest Instinct MI350 series GPUs, including the Instinct MI350X and MI355X GPUs and platforms, which deliver a 4x increase in AI compute power and a 35x leap in inference performance per generation. Additionally, AMD has previewed next year's...

June 13 - At the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event early this morning, AMD officially unveiled ROCm 7, its next-generation open source software stack technology to further accelerate AI and developer productivity. With the release of ROCm 7, AMD is finally moving forward from its ROCm 6 software stack, which has undergone multiple updates over the past few years -- especially since the advent of AI computing. Here are some of the features AMD is focusing on in ROCm 7: Latest...

June 13, 2012 - AMD CEO Zifeng Su has made a very optimistic prediction about the future of the data center space, claiming that demand for AI gas pedals will continue to grow. At the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event early this morning, Zifeng Su revealed that the data center gas pedal market is growing at a staggering 60% CAGR, a figure that is expected to remain stable over the next few years, which would put the AI gas pedal space at a valuation of $500 billion by 2028 (note: current exchange rate of about $3.6 trillion). ...

March 22, 2011 - On Thursday, local time, AMD announced the launch of GAIA (pronounced /ˈɡaɪ.ə/), an application designed to run Large Language Models (LLMs) locally and open-sourced on Github, which is currently limited to the Windows platform. GAIA is a generative AI application that enables localized private running of LLM on Windows PCs and is optimized for the RuiLong AI 300 series processors, marking another important step for AMD in edge computing. Running on the NPU...

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in the UAE's capital city of Abu Dhabi has announced the appointment of a new board of trustees, which includes AMD CEO Lisa Su and the leaders of a number of influential Abu Dhabi-based organizations in the field of artificial intelligence and investment. According to MiddleEastNews, the board has been expanded to nine members, with Mubadala Investment Company, which controls AI firm G42 and chip foundry GlobalFoundries...

AMD announced on January 25 that it has integrated a new DeepSeek-V3 model onto Instinct MI300X GPUs, which has been enhanced by SGLang and optimized for Al inference. A query by 1AI found that AMD announced SGLang v0.4.1, which supports the DeepSeek-V3 model, on Github as early as December 26 last year. AMD said DeepSeek V3 is the strongest open-source LLM currently available, even...

Absci Corporation, a generative AI drug discovery and development company, announced on January 8 that it has entered into a strategic partnership with AMD to deploy AMD Instinct gas pedals and ROCm software to support key AI drug discovery and development workloads, including Absci's from-scratch antibody design models.AMD will also invest $20 million (currently approximately Rs. 147 crores) in Absci in the form of a private investment in equity (PIPE). AMD will also invest $20 million in Absci in the form of a private equity investment (PIPE) (I note: currently approximately RMB 147 million). Absci says this shows that in drug...

Nov. 19 - IBM announced yesterday (Nov. 18) that it has entered into a partnership with AMD to deploy AMD Instinct™ MI300X gas pedals as a service on the IBM Cloud. The service, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, is designed to improve performance and energy efficiency for enterprise customers in generative AI models and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. IBM says that through this partnership, its ...

AMD recently acquired AI infrastructure company ZT Systems for $4.9 billion, aiming to increase the market adoption of its own Instinct data center chip. ZT Systems is a partner of big AI companies such as Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, specializing in providing customized computing infrastructure. This acquisition is undoubtedly an important strategic layout for AMD. AMD CEO Lisa Su said that this acquisition will greatly accelerate the deployment of AMD AI solutions. …

AMD officially announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Silo AI, the largest private AI laboratory in Europe, for approximately US$665 million (currently approximately RMB 4.773 billion), paid in full cash. At this point, Silo AI's scientists and engineers have officially joined the AMD family. AMD's emphasis on the field of AI is self-evident. This acquisition is an important step in its strategic layout, aiming to further strengthen the company's leadership in AI and related technologies. Like technology giants such as Google, Meta, and Apple, AMD …

Chip giant AMD announced Wednesday that it will spend about $665 million (currently about Rs 4,843 million) in cash to acquire Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI, a move aimed at boosting its AI chip capabilities to compete with industry leader Nvidia. Building and training large-scale language models is a challenge even for tech giants, and AMD said the Silo AI acquisition will help it improve the development and deployment of AMD-powered AI models and help potential customers build complex AI models using AMD's chips. The same...

At the annual Computex technology conference, GPU manufacturers showcased their latest technological achievements. Among them, Nvidia and AMD performed particularly well. Nvidia showcased the mass-produced Blackwell chip at the conference and announced its product roadmap for the next three years, including the next-generation Rubin AI platform. AMD CEO Lisa Su showcased AMD's CPU, GPU products and future roadmap, including the desktop Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, AI PC chips, data center chips and GPUs based on the new Zen 5 architecture. …

AMD recently released a series of benchmarks, claiming that its Ryzen mobile 7040 Phoenix series and 8040 series processors can outperform Intel's latest Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs by up to 79% in running large language models (LLMs). This test compares the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processors, both of which are equipped with hardware neural network processing units (NPUs). AM…

On March 28, according to a report by the Nikkei today, Nvidia's cutting-edge image processing semiconductor (GPU) H200 is now available. H200 is a semiconductor for the AI field, and its performance exceeds the current flagship H100. According to the performance evaluation results released by Nvidia, taking the processing speed of Meta's large language model Llama 2 as an example, the processing speed of generative AI derived answers of H200 is up to 45% higher than that of H100. Market research organization Omdia once said that in 2022…

According to a recent survey, a large number of artificial intelligence professionals are planning to switch from Nvidia to AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs. Jeff Tatarchuk, co-founder of TensorWave, revealed that they conducted an independent survey covering 82 engineers and artificial intelligence professionals. Among them, about 50% of respondents said they were confident in the AMD Instinct MI300X GPU because compared to Nvidia's H100 series products, the MI300X …

According to Bloomberg, AMD tried to approve an artificial intelligence chip specifically for the Chinese market, but was rejected by US officials. People familiar with the matter revealed that AMD hopes to obtain approval from the US Department of Commerce to sell the chip to Chinese customers, but US officials believe that the chip is still highly advanced technology, so AMD must obtain permission from the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce before it can be sold. This stricter control has also affected the sales of processors designed specifically for China by Nvidia, another leading artificial intelligence chip manufacturer, which has complied with the 2022 version of the export regulations. For…