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Papermaster: AMD's MI300 AI accelerator beats rivals on compute and power
“It's got a tremendous performance advantage, and we did that very purposely. We created very efficient engines for the math processing that you need for that training or inference processing, but we also brought the memory that you need to have more efficient …”
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Papermaster: Hugging Face tests new models equally on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
“We've partnered with Clem and his team. They test as they release any of those language models they're testing on AMD with our Instinct GPUs equally as they're testing on NVIDIA.”
Disclosure
Papermaster: AMD rejects proprietary walled gardens in favor of open source
“Sarah, the point is, we're not about locking in someone with a proprietary wall garden software stack. What we want is we want to win with the best solution, and we want, or we're committed to open source and we're committed to giving our customers choice.”
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Papermaster: Electrical power availability will become the ultimate AI data center constraint
“This is, I think, ultimately going to be certainly a key constraint and you see you know, all the major operators looking for sources of power”
Insight
Papermaster: Computing requires combined scalar CPU and parallel GPU architectures
“And to me, it was clear that the industry needed That powerful combination of the serial, the scalar competing of these traditional CPU workloads and the massive parallelization that you get from a GPU.”
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Papermaster: AMD has shipped integrated CPU-GPUs longer than any competitor
“So we've been shipping CPUs and GPUs combined for PC applications longer than anyone started shipping those in 20 11. With what we call APUs, accelerated processor units.”
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Papermaster: Most non-LLM AI inferencing currently runs on general-purpose CPUs
“The fact is the bulk of inferencing done today is done on general purpose CPUs, not the huge LLM inferencing, but, you know, just general inferencing for AI applications.”
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Papermaster: AMD is one of two qualified hardware platforms on PyTorch
“We're, One of two qualified offerings on on PyTorch, and so all of that testing is being done you know, routinely with the regression testing that's run literally every night on any software release.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2027
Papermaster: AI compute supply constraints will disappear as AMD ramps production
“Well, that's definitely happening. I mean, the supply constraint will go away. We'll be a part of that. We're ramping up and shipping as we speak on our instant line, and it's going quite well.”
Insight
Papermaster: Slowing Moore's Law yields density gains but limits power efficiency
“And with Moore's law slowing, it means you still get those device improvements, but it Costs more. Your power's not coming down as much as it used to, and you are still getting that integration. You're still certainly being able to pack more devices, and, but …”
Insight
Papermaster: Semiconductor packaging requires geographic diversity beyond foundry capacity
“And so it goes beyond the foundry. It's the same thing with the packaging. So where do you, as you put those chips onto carriers and you need to interconnect it, you need that ecosystem to have geographic diversity as well.”
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Papermaster: Local AI enablement will transform PCs into a new device category
“I mentioned the AI enablement in PCs. That's gonna, I think it's almost gonna make PCs a new category, because when you think of the kind of applications that you're going to be able to run with super high performance, but yeah, low power inferencing you can r…”
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Papermaster: AMD has finished AI-enabling its entire hardware product portfolio
“We've just completed AI enabling our entire portfolio.
So
Cloud.
Edge.
you know, our PCs, our embedded devices, our gaming devices.”
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Papermaster: AMD chips power all Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation consoles
“We're underneath all the Xbox, all the PlayStation, as well as many gaming devices that that, that you buy when you buy your add-in boards.”
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Papermaster: AMD CPUs and GPUs power the world's largest supercomputers
“And so we focused first with you know, big government bids that ended up leading to supercomputer wins that we now have AMD CPU and AMD GPUs under the world's largest supercomputers.”
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Papermaster: AMD builds CPU and GPU compilers on open-source LLVM
“Our compiler for our CPUs is LLVM. It's open source. The LLVM is underneath. Our compilers on our GPU, but more than just the compiler on the GPU, we've opened up the rock and stack.”
Disclosure
Papermaster: AMD is partnering with TSMC on its Arizona fab expansion
“So you see TSMC building fabs in, in Arizona. We're partnering with them.”
Insight
Papermaster: AI architectures should split workloads between cloud efficiency and edge latency
“Writing applications that where you don't have that latency, that, ah, you know, that, ah, dependency on, on a lag in computing, run it on the cloud. It's going to be the most, ah, it's going to be the most efficient because you're optimizing this massive data…”
Mark Papermaster