SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD )
unveiled new server chips at an event in San Francisco
on Thursday ahead of the expected launch of its latest
artificial-intelligence processors, as it seeks to beef up its
AI chips in a market dominated by Nvidia ( NVDA ).
The company announced the availability of a new version of
its server central processing unit (CPU) design. The family of
chips formerly codenamed Turin includes a version of one of them
that is designed to keep the graphics processing units (GPUs)
fed with data - which will speed AI processing.
The flagship chip boasts nearly 200 processing cores and is
priced at $14,813. The whole line of processors uses the Zen 5
architecture that offers speed gains of as much as 37% for
advanced AI data crunching.
At the event, 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
trade 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.
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.