Monat: Mai 2022
Expandable Embedded System with AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 Processor
Taipei, Taiwan, May 31, 2022 — IBASE Technology Inc. (TPEx: 8050), a world leader in embedded boards and computing solutions, unveils its CMI211-989 embedded system powered by AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 processors based on the innovative “Zen 2” x86 core architecture using advanced 7nm manufacturing process. The system harnesses the power AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2748/V2718 CPU with Radeon™ Graphics to enable 25% more PCIe lanes and deliver 40 percent better graphics performance over the previous generation SoC.
CMI211-989 houses IBASE’s MI989 Mini-ITX motherboard supporting up to four independent 4K displays via DP 1.4 ports to create 3D immersive experiences in retail, gaming, and factory automation applications. Measuring 269(w) x 193(d) x 31.5(h) mm, it offers rich I/O connectivity, storage, expansion capabilities and supports 4x COM, 3x USB3.1, 2x USB2.0, a 2.5” drive bay and a PCIe(x16) slot for riser cards expansion. (…) Weiterlesen »
Ayar Labs to Accelerate Development and Application of Optical Interconnects in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Architectures with NVIDIA
SANTA CLARA, Calif. –May 25, 2022 – Ayar Labs, the leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, is developing with NVIDIA groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure based on optical I/O technology to meet future demands of AI and high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The collaboration will focus on integrating Ayar Labs’ technology to develop scale-out architectures enabled by high-bandwidth, low-latency and ultra-low-power optical-based interconnects for future NVIDIA products. Together, the companies plan to accelerate the development and adoption of optical I/O technology to support the explosive growth of AI and machine learning (ML) applications and data volumes. (…) Weiterlesen »
World’s First Exascale Supercomputer Powered by AMD EPYC™ Processors and AMD Instinct™ Accelerators
— Frontier supercomputer, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct Accelerators, achieves number one spots on Top500, Green500 and HPL-AI performance lists, an industry first —
— AMD powers five of the top ten most powerful and eight of the top ten most efficient supercomputers in the world —
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its continued leadership in high performance computing (HPC) by powering the fastest and the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world, according to the latest Top500 and Green500 lists.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier system submitted its very first score to the Top500 list of 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer and the first to break the exascale barrier. Frontier’s performance is more than double the number two system and greater than the sum of the next seven systems on the latest Top500 list.
In addition, the Frontier test and development system (TDS) secured the top spot on the Green500 list, delivering 62.68 gigaflops/watt power-efficiency from a single cabinet of optimized 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ MI250x accelerators. Finally, Frontier’s mixed-precision computing performance clocked in at 6.86 exaflops, as measured by the High-Performance Linpack-Accelerator Introspection, or HPL-AI, test. Next steps for Frontier include continued testing and validation of the system, which remains on track for final acceptance and early science access later in 2022, and open for full science at the beginning of 2023. (…) Weiterlesen »
TYAN Brings Modern HPC Server Platforms for Data Centers at ISC 2022
Taipei, Taiwan, May 27, 2022 — TYAN®, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, will exhibit its latest HPC platforms powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors with AMD 3D V‑Cache™ technology for data centers deployments at ISC 2022 event from May 30th to June 1st at booth#D400 in Hamburg, Germany.
“The amount of data generated by humans and machines has increased exponentially and this requires a steady increase of data center compute performance, therefore, modern data centers need balanced hardware to efficiently manage growing data volumes”, said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation’s Server Infrastructure Business Unit. “TYAN’s server platforms built upon AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors provide the best foundation for datacenters that can be tailored to specific workloads with balancing hardware design.”
Optimizing for HPC computation, database performance, and high data throughput at the edge
Powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V‑Cache technology, the Transport HX TN83-B8251 is a 2U dual-socket server with 16 DDR4-3200 DIMM slots and eight 3.5‑inch hot-swap SATA or NVMe U.2 tool-less drive bays. The platform supports up to four double-wide GPU cards and two additional low-profile PCIe 4.0 x16 slots that provide optimized topology to improve HPC and deep learning performance. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD übernimmt Pensando für 1,9 Milliarden US-Dollar
Nach der Übernahme von Xilinx und einem im Februar angekündigten Aktienrückkaufprogramm in Höhe von 8 Milliarden US-Dollar hat AMD per Pressemitteilung bekanntgegeben, dass die Übernahme von Pensando — einen Hersteller von Hard- und Software für Datenzentren — mit einem Kaufpreis von etwa 1,9 Milliarden US-Dollar abgeschlossen wurde. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Instinct™ MI200 Adopted for Large-Scale AI Training in Microsoft Azure
ꟷ Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud to deploy AMD Instinct MI200 accelerators ꟷ
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft continued their collaboration in the cloud, with Microsoft announcing the use of AMD Instinct™ MI200 accelerators to power large scale AI training workloads. In addition, Microsoft announced it is working closely with the PyTorch Core team and AMD data center software team to optimize the performance and developer experience for customers running PyTorch on Microsoft Azure and ensure that developers’ PyTorch projects take advantage of the performance and features of AMD Instinct accelerators.
“AMD Instinct MI200 accelerators provide customers with cutting-edge AI and HPC performance and will power many of the world’s fastest supercomputer systems that push the boundaries of science,” said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president, Data Center and Accelerated Processing, AMD. “Our work with Microsoft to enable large-scale AI training and inference in the cloud not only highlights the expansive technology collaboration between the two companies, but the performance capabilities of AMD Instinct MI200 accelerators and how they will ultimately help customers advance the growing demands for AI workloads.” (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Expands Data Center Solutions Capabilities with Acquisition of Pensando
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pensando Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion. Pensando’s distributed services platform will expand AMD’s data center product portfolio with a high-performance data processing unit (DPU) and software stack that are already deployed at scale across cloud and enterprise customers including Goldman Sachs, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. The Pensando team will join the AMD Data Center Solutions Group, led by AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager Forrest Norrod.
“The data center remains one of the largest growth opportunities for AMD. The addition of the Pensando Systems team with their hardware and software portfolio will enables us to offer cloud, enterprise and edge customers a broader portfolio of leadership compute engines that can be optimized for their specific workloads,” said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “Pensando’s leadership DPU complements our data center product portfolio, enabling AMD to offer solutions that can significantly accelerate data transfer speeds while providing additional levels of security and analytics that will play a larger role in defining the performance of next-generation data centers.”
Pensando will remain focused on executing their product and technology roadmaps, now with additional scale to accelerate their business and address growing market opportunities across a broader number of customers. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Corporate Presentation Mai 2022
Seit dem September 2019 stellt AMD neben der Investorenpräsentation eine Unternehmenspräsentation (Corporate Presentation) zur Verfügung, die auf die aktuellsten Produkte des Unternehmens eingeht, etwas ausführlicher ist und die aktuellsten Roadmaps enthält. Gegenüber der aktuellsten AMD Investor-Präsentation vom November 2021 gibt es allerdings so kurz vor der CES keine Neuigkeiten. Erwähnt werden nun 3D V‑Cache, die kommenden Serverprozessoren auf Basis von Zen 4 bzw. Zen 4c sowie die MI200-GPU-Beschleunigerkarten.
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Präsentation AMD Computex 2022 Keynote
Die komplette Präsentation der AMD-Keynote zur Computex 2022 vom gestrigen Dienstag mit den Informationen zu Ryzen 7000 (Zen 4) haben wir nachfolgend für Euch aufgeführt. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Expands Confidential Computing Presence on Google Cloud
3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors enable enhanced security offerings for Google Cloud N2D and C2D VMs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced new Confidential virtual machines (VMs) on the existing the N2D and C2D VMs on Google Cloud, all powered by AMD EPYC™ processors. These VMs extend the AMD EPYC processor portfolio of Confidential Computing on Google Cloud with the performance of 3rd Gen EPYC processors in compute-optimized VMs.
A key Confidential Computing component provided by AMD EPYC processors is AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), part of AMD Infinity Guard. This advanced hardware-based security feature encrypts full system memory and individual virtual machine memory as well as isolating the VM memory from the hypervisor, without dramatically impacting performance. With the expansion of Confidential Computing in N2D and C2D VMs, Google Cloud customers now have access to advanced hardware enabled security features powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors that will help protect sensitive, wide-variety workloads.
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AMD Financial Analyst Day am 9. Juni
Nachdem der letzte Financial Analyst Day von AMD im Jahr 2020 stattgefunden hat, wird man nun am Donnerstag, den 9. Juni 2022 um 21:30 Uhr den Financial Analyst Day 2022 abhalten und diesen per Live-Webcast übertragen. Sprecher werden AMD-Vorsitzende und CEO Dr. Lisa Su, CTO Mark Papermaster und CFO Devinder Kumar sein. (…) Weiterlesen »
Ryzen 7000 im Herbst mit neuen Chipsätzen und verhaltenem Applaus
Wie angekündigt, hat AMD gestern auf der Computex seine Keynote abgehalten, die live bei uns im Forum verfolgt werden konnte. Neben AMD “Mendocino”, einem Zen-2-Produkt mit RDNA2-Grafik in 6 nm für den Einsteiger-Notebookmarkt ging es dort vorwiegend um Zen 4, konkret um den kommenden Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” auf Basis dieser Architektur. Doch der Applaus in der Community war verhalten. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.5.2
Die neueste Version der Radeon Software Adrenalin — also des Treibers für AMD-Grafikkarten — ist für Windows 10 und Windows 11 erschienen. Die Version 22.5.2 unterstützt die Spiele “Sniper Elite 5” und “Hitman 3 Ray Tracing Update. Außerdem bietet sie Unterstützung für weitere Vulkan-Erweiterungen. Wie bereits in einem vor einigen Tagen veröffentlichten Preview-Treiber sind nun Verbesserungen für DirectX-11-Spiele für die Radeon 6000 enthalten, die laut AMD Performanceverbesserungen bis zu 8 Prozent bringen sollen. AMD Smart Access Memory erhält Optimierungen für die Spiele “Death Stranding” und “Watch Dogs: Legion”. (…) Weiterlesen »
Phison Announces Strategic PCIe Gen5 Relationship with AMD and Micron at Computex 2022
Ecosystem collaboration between partners unveiled for PCIe Gen5 to shape technology and compute experience for the future in an always-connected world.
Taipei, Taiwan, May 23, 2022 – Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299), a leading provider of NAND controller and flash storage solutions, announced today a strategic collaboration with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Micron (NASDAQ: MU) to build a cooperative PCIe Gen5 ecosystem of compatible products that elevate the gaming and creator experience.
https://youtu.be/7RIzDxoxVFE
Phison’s role includes delivering a class-leading PCie Gen5 SSD controller – PS5026-E26 – that features nearly a 2x performance increase over the previous generation flagship while adhering to the same power limitations of the M.2 form factor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6ddjEymd0
“We are pleased to announce our cooperative effort with Micron and AMD to advance the technological development of PCIe Gen5 storage offerings, as this validates Phison’s commitment to upholding customer-centric values,” said Leo Huang, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Phison. “The E26 controller enables gamers to compete at the highest level and helps content creators to maximize the overall system performance to increase productivity.” (…) Weiterlesen »
ASUS Republic of Gamers zeigt erstmals das ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme Mainboard
Das Flaggschiff-Mainboard für die neue AMD AM5-Plattform mit zwei PCI Express 5.0 Steckplätzen, robuster Stromversorgung, DDR5-Unterstützung, USB4, ASUS Q‑Design und vielem mehr
- Konzipiert, um mit der neuesten hochkarätigen Technologie, erstklassiger Übertaktung und einem neuen AniMe Matrix™ Design führend in der neuen AM5-Ära von AMD zu sein
- Bietet bis zu fünf M.2 Steckplätze, zwei PCIe® 5.0 Erweiterungssteckplätze, DDR5, USB4®, 10 Gb Ethernet, WiFi 6E und ESS Quad DAC™
- Ein ganzes Arsenal von Headern für Lüfter, Temperatursensoren und Kühlmitteldurchflussüberwachung bietet eine verfeinerte Steuerung für eine Vielzahl von Airflow-Setups und Custom-Wasserkühlungen
- ASUS Q‑Design erleichtert die Installation, Fehlersuche und Aufrüstung von Grafikkarten, M.2‑Laufwerken und Speichermodulen
Ratingen, Deutschland, 23. Mai 2022 — ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) hat heute das ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme angekündigt, ein Flaggschiff-Mainboard für die lang erwartete AM5-Plattform von AMD. Mit der PCIe® 5.0‑Konnektivität der nächsten Generation, DDR5-RAM und einem massiven Stromversorgungs-Subsystem, das eine robuste Grundlage für Overclocking bildet, bietet dieses Next-Gen-Board eine konkurrenzlose Plattform für alle, die sich an ihr nächstes Projekt wagen. Die ASUS Q‑Design-Funktionen vereinfachen und optimieren den Zusammenbau, und eine robuste Suite von Tools ermöglicht es Enthusiasten, die Systemleistung zu maximieren. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wird ASUS weitere Informationen zu den kommenden AM5-Mainboards der ROG‑, ROG Strix‑, TUF Gaming‑, ProArt- und ASUS Prime-Familien bekannt geben, doch eines ist jetzt schon sicher: Das ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme ist dazu bestimmt, eines der begehrtesten Boards dieser Generation zu werden. (…) Weiterlesen »
