AMD announced new AI chips to compete with Nvidia and Intel for market leadership.
“AI is our top priority, and we’re at the start of an incredibly exciting period for the industry as AI transforms virtually every business, improves our quality of life, and reshapes every aspect of the computing market,” chair and CEO Lisa Su said at the Computex tech conference in Taipei.
During a keynote speech, Su unveiled the Ryzen AI 300 series of next-generation AI laptops.
The line could compete with Intel’s upcoming Lunar Lake and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X. These chips will power laptops equipped with Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Copilot.
Su also unveiled the new Ryzen 9000 series for desktops, describing them as “the world’s fastest consumer PC processors” for gaming and content creation.
Both lines are expected to debut in July. AMD recently introduced the Ryzen Pro 8040 for laptops and Ryzen Pro 8000 for desktops, both capable of running AI workloads.
To remain competitive in the AI race, chipmakers are racing to release faster and more powerful processors. Nvidia announced on Sunday the “Rubin” generation of AI chips, which will succeed the previous “Blackwell” model, which was announced in March.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has pledged to release new AI chip technology every year, up from the company’s previous two-year schedule. AMD also plans to release new AI chip technology each year.
AMD detailed its data center chip roadmap on Monday, with the Instinct MI325X accelerators, a beefed-up version of the MI300 series, set to be available in the fourth quarter. The Instinct MI350 series, which will be built on next-generation architecture, is set to be released in 2025, while the Instinct MI400 series is scheduled for 2026.
On Monday, Su also previewed the latest fifth-generation EPYC server processors, which are expected to be released in the second half of this year and “continue the leadership performance and efficiency of the AMD EPYC processor family.”
AMD, like Nvidia, does not manufacture its own chips. Instead, it outsources chip manufacturing to foundries, most notably Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest contract chipmaker.
The Ryzen AI 300, Ryzen 9000, and 5th-generation EPYC processors will be based on the latest “Zen 5” architecture.
“You’re gonna see Zen 5 everywhere from supercomputers to data centers and PCs,” Su said.
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