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AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030

Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets

European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6

AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144

House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4

European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 |

AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell

And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack

European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 9

If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight

Systems04 Jun 2025 | 29

The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy

Analysis Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture

Systems30 May 2025 | 2

Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick

Systems28 May 2025 | 12

China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection

Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon

Systems27 May 2025 | 22

AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips

Computex RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700

AI Infrastructure Month21 May 2025 | 36

AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss

Interview Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster

AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 5

AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs

The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its best

AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 13

Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese

Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules

AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 22

Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off

AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4

El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production

Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much

AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 11

First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales

World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

HPC16 Apr 2025 | 7

AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series

The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP

Systems28 Feb 2025 | 51

Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?

Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 51

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Interview Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 4

Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security

Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches

Networks11 Feb 2025 | 3

Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su

Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive

Systems05 Feb 2025 |

Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least

Patches04 Feb 2025 | 75

Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress

Updated Answers on a postcard to what 'Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability' might mean

Patches23 Jan 2025 | 11

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date

OSes14 Jan 2025 | 44

Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business

CES Plus: A peek at Nvidia's latest hype

Systems08 Jan 2025 | 3

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision

CES It'll all end in tiers

Personal Tech07 Jan 2025 | 55

AI's rising tide lifts all chips as AMD Instinct, cloudy silicon vie for a slice of Nvidia's pie

Analyst estimates show growing apetite for alternative infrastructure

Systems23 Dec 2024 | 8

Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?

Analysis Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like

Systems17 Dec 2024 | 34

AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling

Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory

Systems10 Dec 2024 | 10

Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake

CEO's severance pales in comparison to Musk's billion-dollar Tesla battle

Systems03 Dec 2024 | 7

Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender

From post-Athlon 64 dive into near obscurity to chip market stalwart

Systems27 Nov 2024 | 43

Nvidia's dominance on the Green500 faces challenges from AMD – and itself

SC24 Blackwell's weaker FP64 performance could give the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators a leg up in future efficiency benchmarks

Systems22 Nov 2024 | 1

LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

SC24 Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view

HPC18 Nov 2024 | 11

AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers

LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all?

AI + ML13 Nov 2024 | 7

AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains, but server growth slows

Arm-powered PCs are still nowhere

Systems12 Nov 2024 | 22

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell?

Opinion Tech for tech's sake with niche uses that traditional hardware can handle

Systems11 Nov 2024 | 74

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

Review Zen 5 3D V-cache is here at last, and priced at $479 – one for the gamers or multi-purpose desktop chip for all?

Systems07 Nov 2024 | 34

Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs

Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027

Systems01 Nov 2024 | 7

AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations

Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct

Systems30 Oct 2024 | 5

A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs

Analysis Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here

Systems24 Oct 2024 | 25

Top EU court overturns Intel's billion-dollar antitrust fine

Conditional rebates settled, but $400M matter of naked restrictions remains

Systems24 Oct 2024 | 6

It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat

Opinion Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla?

Systems22 Oct 2024 | 92

China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors

Intel and AMD left scrapping over about a third of the deal, and license fees

Systems22 Oct 2024 | 3

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

Claims forthcoming chip catches up to Alder Lake and Xen 2

Systems21 Oct 2024 | 31

Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method

The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 28

Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul

Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list

Systems15 Oct 2024 | 23

AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut

Just not on the same chip, of course

Systems10 Oct 2024 | 18

AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025

Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper

Systems10 Oct 2024 | 5

AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not

Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements

AI + ML10 Oct 2024 | 6

TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators

Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4

Systems08 Oct 2024 |

Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it

Comment Chipzilla's AIB market share a rounding error compared to Nvidia, AMD

Systems02 Oct 2024 | 69

With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD

And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it

Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21

AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals

Comment CEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything... as Intel struggles

Systems12 Sep 2024 | 12

Qualcomm guns for Intel, AMD with cheaper 8-core X chips

It’s set to slice up the AI PC competition at $700-$900

Systems04 Sep 2024 | 5

AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon

Hot Chips Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull

Systems29 Aug 2024 | 8

AMD internal data reportedly offered for sale

Second sensitive info theft claimed by the same crims since June

Cyber-crime26 Aug 2024 | 1

Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed

Systems23 Aug 2024 | 37

AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all

Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series

Systems20 Aug 2024 | 21