Nov. 10, 2021
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AMD strikes chip deal to power Meta’s data centers
AMD chips
will be used to power Meta's data centers with both companies working together
to define an open, cloud-scale, single-socket server designed for performance
and power efficiency.
AMD chips
are making the headlines again, as the company announces a deal with Meta to be
their data center chip customer. Meta, the rebranded Facebook parent company,
unveiled its Metaverse several weeks earlier. With AMD chips now seemingly a
part of Meta’s data center, the
announcement established AMD’s presence in the competitive chip market.
Speaking at
the virtual Accelerated Data Center Premiere, president
and CEO of AMD Dr. Lisa Su said the company is in a high-performance computing
megacycle that is driving demand for more computing power to enable the
services and devices that impact every aspect of daily lives.
“We are
building significant momentum in the data center with our leadership product
portfolio, including Meta’s adoption of AMD EPYC to power their infrastructure
and the buildout of Frontier, the first U.S. exascale supercomputer which will
be powered by EPYC and AMD Instinct processors,” said Su. “In addition, today
we announced a breadth of new products that build on that momentum in
next-generation EPYC processors with new innovations in design, leadership, 3D
packaging technology, and 5 nm high-performance manufacturing to further extend
our leadership for cloud, enterprise, and HPC customers.”
At the
virtual event, AMD also announced the launch of the AMD Instinct MI200 series
accelerators, the world’s fastest accelerator for high-performance computing (HPC)
and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, providing
a preview of the innovative 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with
AMD 3D V-Cache. AMD also revealed new information about its next-gen “Zen 4”
processor core and announced the new “Zen 4c” processor core, both of which
will power future AMD server processors and are designed to extend the
company’s leadership in products for the data center.
Meta is the
latest major hyperscale cloud company that
has adopted AMD EPYC CPUs to power its data centers. Both companies worked
together to define an open, cloud-scale, single-socket server designed for
performance and power efficiency, based on the 3rd Gen EPYC
processor.
AMD chips have
been facing competition in the chip market for years, with Intel dominating the
industry most times. But recent chip supply and shortage issues have seen AMD
make the most of the situation and remain competitive in the industry. Intel,
TCMC and Samsung have been dominating the chip industry for
several years, but AMD is now seemingly knocking on their doors, thanks to its
innovations in chip production.
AMD chips
and the data center
During the event, AMD
previewed the use of innovative 3D chipset packaging technology in the data
center with the first server CPU using high-performance 3D die stacking. The 3rd Gen
AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-Cache, codenamed “Milan-X,” represents an
innovative step forward in CPU design and packaging, and will offer a 50%
average performance uplift across targeted technical computing workloads.
AMD also announced that Microsoft
Azure HPC virtual machines featuring 3rd Gen EPYC with AMD 3D
V-Cache are available today in Private Preview, with broad rollout in the
coming weeks. With the 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs with AMD 3D
V-Cache launching in Q1 2022, partners including Cisco, Dell Technologies,
Lenovo, HPE and Supermicro are planning to offer server solutions with these
processors.
The AMD
revolution
To make a mark in the
industry, MI200 is AMD’s first exascale-class GPU accelerator. Built on AMD CDNA 2 architecture, AMD Instinct
MI200 series accelerators deliver leading application performance for a broad
set of HPC workloads. The AMD Instinct MI250X accelerator provides up to 4.9x
better performance than competitive accelerators for double precision (FP64)
HPC applications, surpassing 380 teraflops of peak theoretical half-precision
(FP16) for AI workloads to enable disruptive approaches in further accelerating data-driven research.
According to Forrest Norrod,
senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions
Business Group, AMD, AMD Instinct MI200 accelerators deliver leadership HPC and AI performance, helping scientists make generational leaps in research that
can dramatically shorten the time between initial hypothesis and discovery.
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