Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s::AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X, could give big tech buyers leverage over Nvidia, if it works as advertised and is price-competitive.
Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s::AMD’s newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X, could give big tech buyers leverage over Nvidia, if it works as advertised and is price-competitive.
This opens the door for more, as well. It means breaking the reliance on CUDA. Meta originally developed PyTorch and it’s still a large contributor. This means more resources will go into open backends instead of CUDA.