Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s - eviltoast

Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s::AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X, could give big tech buyers leverage over Nvidia, if it works as advertised and is price-competitive.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Although this is not a ton of competition, some is better than none at all.

    • hersh@literature.cafe
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      11 months ago

      This opens the door for more, as well. It means breaking the reliance on CUDA. Meta originally developed PyTorch and it’s still a large contributor. This means more resources will go into open backends instead of CUDA.