AMD unveils MI300x AI chip as 'generative AI accelerator'

AMD's Instinct MI300X GPU features multiple GPU "chiplets" plus 192 gigabytes of HBM3 DRAM memory, and 5.2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth. The company said it is the only chip that can handle large language models of up to 80 billion parameters in memory. 

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Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su on Tuesday in San Francisco unveiled a chip that is a centerpiece in the company's strategy for artificial intelligence computing, boasting its enormous memory and data throughput for so-called generative AI tasks such as large language models. 

The Instinct MI300X, as the part is known, is a follow-on to the previously announced MI300A. The chip is really a combination of multiple "chiplets," individual chips that are joined together in a single package by shared memory and networking links.

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