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AI chip war heats up as AMD unveils its Nvidia Blackwell competitor


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  • AMD says new Instinct MI350 Series GPUs are 35x better at inferencing than their predecessors
  • AMD claims it has exceeded its energy efficiency goals, lays out bolder goals
  • MI400 GPUs will power future Helios AI Racks

AMD has unveiled its Instinct MI350 Series GPUs, promising a staggering 4x improvement to AI performance compared with the previous generation chips – enough to have Nvidia worried about the market dominance of its Blackwell chips.

Company CEO Lisa Su also revealed details of the Helios AI Rack, which is to be built on next-generation Instinct MI400 Series GPUs as well as AMD EPYV Venice CPUs and AMD Pensando Vulcano NICs.

The news came at AMD's Advancing AI 2025 conference, together with a series of other hardware, software and AI announcements.

AMD's latest chips put up a fight against Nvidia's Blackwell

Besides the 4x improvement to AI performance, AMD ...


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