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Message: [QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 82134, member: 636"] AMD is really trying to flex on Nvidia with some monster AI chips. The company showed its first 2-nanometer processors, an EPYC server CPU called Venice, and an Instinct MI455X accelerator, built for a liquid-cooled system named the Helios AI rack. The CEO held up the new silicon, highlighting a configuration with one Venice CPU and four of the MI455X GPUs per node. That setup scales up to thousands of cores and an absurd amount of memory bandwidth across a full rack. AMD claims the entire Helios platform can deliver nearly three exaflops of AI compute. The Instinct MI455X GPU is a massive chip with two main compute dies and sixteen HBM4 memory stacks. They are positioning it against Nvidia's upcoming rival hardware, claiming advantages in scale-out bandwidth and memory capacity. The accompanying EPYC Venice CPU uses a Zen 6C core architecture to cram up to 256 cores into a single package by utilizing eight compute chiplets. This design promises major performance and efficiency gains over current server parts. A more mainstream version with 192 cores will also be available. Beyond the flagship, AMD outlined a broader data center portfolio using these new technologies. This includes a dense rack holding seventy-two GPUs for hyperscale companies and a smaller eight-GPU solution for enterprise clients. They are also preparing cache-enhanced CPUs and specialized GPUs for scientific computing. The company stated these 2nm chips are now in production, with shipments to customers expected later this year. [/QUOTE]

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