SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD )
is expected to announce several new artificial
intelligence processors and other chips at an event in San
Francisco on Thursday, as it grows as a supplier of AI chips in
a market dominated by Nvidia ( NVDA ).
AMD will likely detail its MI325X chip and the next
generation MI350 chip that it promised for this year and next
year respectively when it unveiled them at the Computex treade
show in Taiwan in June.
The MI350 series features increased computing horsepower and
memory, according to the company's presentation in June. The AMD
design aims to compete with Nvidia's ( NVDA ) Blackwell architecture.
AMD is also likely to announce new server central processing
units (CPUs) and PC chips that feature more AI computing
horsepower.
The current MI300X AI chip launched late last year and AMD
has quickly ramped up production to meet demand.
In July, the company raised its AI chip forecast to $4.5
billion for the year from its previous target of $4 billion.
Demand for its MI300X chips has surged because of the frenzy
around building and deploying generative AI products.
AMD's launch on Thursday is unlikely to impact Nvidia's ( NVDA ) data
center revenue as the demand for such chips vastly exceeds the
availability.
This year analysts expect AMD to report data center revenue
of $12.83 billion, according to LSEG estimates. Wall Street
expects Nvidia ( NVDA ) to report data center revenue of $110.36 billion.
Data center revenue is a proxy for AI chips needed to build and
run AI applications.
(Max Cherney in San Francisco; Editing by Sonali Paul)