AMD Sees Subsequent AI Chip in Mass Manufacturing Later This Yr

Advanced Micro Devices mentioned on Thursday it plans to begin mass manufacturing of a brand new model of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip known as the MI325X within the fourth quarter of the 12 months, because it seeks to bolster its presence in a market dominated by Nvidia.

At an occasion in San Francisco, AMD CEO Lisa Su mentioned the corporate plans to launch its next-generation MI350 collection chips within the second half of 2025. These chips embody an elevated quantity of reminiscence and can boast a brand new underlying structure that AMD mentioned will enhance efficiency considerably over the prior MI300X and MI250X chips.

The bulletins have been broadly anticipated primarily based on AMD disclosures earlier this 12 months. They did not cheer buyers, who despatched AMD shares down almost 5 % in afternoon buying and selling. Some analysts attributed the autumn to the absence of huge new cloud-computing prospects for the chips.

Shares of rival Nvidia have been up 1.5 % whereas Intel fell 1.6 %.  

Demand for AI processors from main know-how companies akin to Microsoft and Meta Platforms has been far outpacing provide from Nvidia and AMD, permitting the semiconductor corporations to promote as a lot as they’ll produce.

That has pushed an enormous rally in chip shares over the previous two years, with AMD’s shares up about 30 % since a current low in early August. 

“There are no new customers announced so far,” mentioned Summit Insights analysis analyst Kinngai Chan, including that the inventory had gained forward of the occasion in anticipation of “something new.”

Santa Clara, California-based AMD mentioned distributors akin to Super Micro Computer would start to ship its MI325X AI chip to prospects within the first quarter of 2025. The AMD design goals to compete with Nvidia’s Blackwell structure.

The MI325X chip makes use of the identical structure because the already-available MI300X, which AMD launched final 12 months. The new chip features a new kind of reminiscence that AMD mentioned will pace AI calculations.

AMD’s next-generation AI chips are prone to put additional strain on Intel, which has struggled to deploy a coherent AI chips technique. Intel has forecast AI chip gross sales of greater than $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,203 crore) in 2024.

New Server, PC Chips

AMD’s Su additionally mentioned on the occasion that the corporate doesn’t presently have plans to make use of contract chip producers past Taiwan’s TSMC for superior manufacturing processes, that are used to provide speedy AI chips.

“We would love to use more capacity outside of Taiwan. We are very aggressive in the use of TSMC’s Arizona facility,” Su mentioned.

AMD additionally unveiled a number of networking chips that assist pace transferring knowledge between chips and techniques inside knowledge facilities.

The firm introduced the provision of a brand new model of its server central processing unit (CPU) design. The household of chips previously codenamed Turin features a model of one in all them that’s designed to maintain the graphics processing models (GPUs) fed with knowledge – which is able to pace AI processing.

The flagship chip boasts almost 200 processing cores and is priced at $14,813 (roughly Rs. 12.45 lakh). The complete line of processors makes use of the Zen 5 structure that gives pace features of as a lot as 37 % for superior AI knowledge crunching.

Beyond the info heart chips, AMD introduced three new PC chips aimed toward laptops, primarily based on the Zen 5 structure. The new chips are tuned to run AI functions and shall be able to working Microsoft’s Copilot+ software program.

In July, AMD raised its AI chip forecast to $4.5 billion (roughly Rs. 37,834 crore) for the 12 months from its earlier goal of $4 billion (roughly Rs. 33,630 crore). Demand for its MI300X chips has surged due to the frenzy round constructing and deploying generative AI merchandise.

This 12 months analysts count on AMD to report knowledge heart income of $12.83 billion (roughly Rs. 10,78,711 crore), in line with LSEG estimates. Wall Street expects Nvidia to report knowledge heart income of $110.36 billion (roughly Rs. 9,27,877 crore). Data heart income is a proxy for AI chips wanted to construct and run AI functions.

Analysts’ rising earnings expectations have stored AMD and Nvidia’s valuations in examine regardless of the share surge. Both the businesses commerce at greater than 33 instances their 12-month ahead earnings estimates, in contrast with the benchmark S&P 500’s 22.3.

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