Advanced Micro Devices Inc. officially launched its next-generation data-center central processing unit at its Data Center & AI Technology Premiere event in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Shipping now, AMD’s
AMD,
fourth-generation Epyc data-center CPU, codenamed Bergamo, is intended to compete with Nvidia Corp.’s
NVDA,
Grace Hopper data-center CPU.
Like Nvidia, AMD has been swept up in the hype of artificial-intelligence technology going mainstream amid the popularity of Microsoft Corp.
MSFT,
-backed OpenAI’s generative-AI ChatGPT, because all those large-language models and other AI technologies require a lot of computing power from data centers.
AMD claims the 128-core-per-socket CPUs excel at energy efficiency while using fewer servers. During her keynote, AMD Chair and Chief Executive Lisa Su said the chip delivered 1.8x performance per watt, compared with Intel Corp.’s
INTC,
fourth-generation Xeon platinum CPU.
Read: Nvidia CEO expects AI revenue to grow from ‘tiny, tiny, tiny’ to ‘quite large’ in the next 12 months
Last year, Su called AI the company’s “single highest growth opportunity for us, the largest growth opportunity for us over the next few years.”
AMD shares have declined 0.3% in recent trading, while the PHLX Semiconductor Index
SOX,
has risen 1.6%, the S&P 500
SPX,
has gained 0.8%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index
COMP,
has risen 0.9%.
