Microsoft backs AMD's move into AI

Stefan Mileschin · 8th May 2023, 07:27

Creating an Athena chip

Software King of the World Microsoft is helping finance AMD's expansion into AI chips. Meanwhile, AMD is working with Microsoft to create an in-house chipset, codenamed Athena, for the software giant's data centres.

Athena is being designed as a cost-effective replacement for Nvidia AI chipsets. The advantage being that Athena is a benign goddess of wisdom, war and cute owls and Nvidia is named after a Roman revenge daemon.

Vole is keen to get the project started as its ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot workloads are incredibly expensive using third-party chips. Microsoft plans to expand its use of AI dramatically this year, it needs a cheaper alternative.

Microsoft Silicon business, led by former Intel executive Rani Borkar, is growing and now has almost 1,000 employees, several hundred of which are working on Athena.

The software giant has invested about $2 billion on this effort so far which is additional to the $11 billion it's invested in ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/56834-m...s-move-into-ai

8th May 2023, 07:27	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	Microsoft backs AMD's move into AI Creating an Athena chip Software King of the World Microsoft is helping finance AMD's expansion into AI chips. Meanwhile, AMD is working with Microsoft to create an in-house chipset, codenamed Athena, for the software giant's data centres. Athena is being designed as a cost-effective replacement for Nvidia AI chipsets. The advantage being that Athena is a benign goddess of wisdom, war and cute owls and Nvidia is named after a Roman revenge daemon. Vole is keen to get the project started as its ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot workloads are incredibly expensive using third-party chips. Microsoft plans to expand its use of AI dramatically this year, it needs a cheaper alternative. Microsoft Silicon business, led by former Intel executive Rani Borkar, is growing and now has almost 1,000 employees, several hundred of which are working on Athena. The software giant has invested about $2 billion on this effort so far which is additional to the $11 billion it's invested in ChatGPT maker OpenAI. https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/56834-m...s-move-into-ai

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