Hacker News with Generative AI: AMD

AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency (semianalysis.com)
Ever since SemiAnalysis published an article in December 2024 detailing mediocre AMD software and the lack of usability, AMD has kicked into a higher gear and has made rapid progress in the past four months on many items we laid out. We view AMD’s new sense of urgency as a massive positive in its journey to catch up to Nvidia. AMD is now in a wartime stance, but there are still many battles ahead of it.

AMD, Semiconductors, Software, Competition, Business

29 points by AbuAssar 2 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Publishes Open-Source Driver for GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In the Roadmap" (phoronix.com)
AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs.

AMD, Open Source, GPU Virtualization, Radeon, Hardware

194 points by davidlt 2 days ago | 59 comments

AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency, MI450X Chance to Beat Nvidia, Nvidia's New Moat (semianalysis.com)
Ever since SemiAnalysis published an article in December 2024 detailing mediocre AMD software and the lack of usability, AMD has kicked into a higher gear and has made rapid progress in the past four months on many items we laid out.

AMD, Nvidia, Semiconductors, Software, Competition

6 points by elorant 2 days ago | 0 comments

Framework 13 AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Strix Point Makes for a Great Linux Laptop (phoronix.com)
Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs: wow, what an upgrade! I've spent the past week testing out the Framework 13 with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and it's been terrific.

Hardware, Linux, Laptops, AMD

5 points by pella 9 days ago | 0 comments

AMD teases its first 2nm chip, EPYC 'Venice' fabbed on TSMC N2 node (tomshardware.com)

AMD, CPUs, Hardware, Semiconductors, Manufacturing

24 points by rbanffy 11 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese project aims to run RISC-V code on AMD Zen processors (tomshardware.com)

RISC-V, AMD, Processors, Hardware

10 points by LorenDB 15 days ago | 2 comments

Run RISC-V Binaries on AMD Zen-Series CPUs via Microcode Modification (rvspoc.org)
Current AMD Zen-series CPUs (e.g., EPYC 9004 series) have begun integrating RISC-V coprocessors for specific acceleration tasks.

RISC-V, AMD, Microcode, CPUs, Hardware

54 points by davikr 16 days ago | 19 comments

Google Cloud's New C4D VMs Deliver Remarkable Performance with AMD EPYC Turin (phoronix.com)
As part of the announcements coming out today from Google Cloud Next 2025, the embargo has now lifted on the new Google Cloud C4D VMs.

Google Cloud, Cloud Computing, Virtual Machines, AMD, Performance

18 points by rbanffy 17 days ago | 1 comments

Linux 6.15 Features Deliver a Lot for Intel and AMD, Many Other Changes (phoronix.com)
The Linux 6.15 merge window ended on Sunday with the release of Linux 6.15-rc1. There is a lot of exciting features and updates that were merged during the two-week merge window. Here is a look at all of the most prominent changes to be found with Linux 6.15.

Linux, Operating Systems, Intel, AMD, Software Updates

6 points by rbanffy 18 days ago | 0 comments

Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture (chipsandcheese.com)
Modern GPUs often make a difficult tradeoff between occupancy (active thread count) and register count available to each thread.

Computer Science, GPU Architecture, AMD, Optimization

127 points by ingve 20 days ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? (ycombinator.com)
I appreciate developing ROCm into something competitive with CUDA would require a lot of work, both internally within AMD and with external contributions to the relevant open source libraries.

AMD, CUDA, Open Source

194 points by spacebanana7 25 days ago | 187 comments

Linux 6.15 Goes Heavy on Intel and AMD x86_64 CPU Changes (phoronix.com)
Merged today for the recently-opened Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the "x86/core" changes that are particularly heavy on new feature work for both Intel and AMD x86/x86_64 processors.

Linux, Intel, AMD, CPUs, Kernel

15 points by rbanffy 31 days ago | 0 comments

An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark (computerenhance.com)
Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem. Not only is it the reigning champion in many x64 benchmarks, but it is also the architecture that enabled AMD’s dramatic rise in CPU marketshare over the past eight years: from 10% when the first Zen processor was launched, to 25% at the introduction of Zen 5.

AMD, Computer Architecture, Microprocessors, Interviews

151 points by Smaug123 32 days ago | 19 comments

RDNA 4's “Out-of-Order” Memory Accesses (chipsandcheese.com)
AMD's RDNA 4 brings a variety of memory subsystem enhancements. Among those, one slide stood out because it dealt with out-of-order memory accesses. According to the slide, RDNA 4 allows requests from different shaders to be satisfied out-of-order, and adds new out-of-order queues for memory requests.

AMD, Graphics Cards, Hardware, Memory, Performance

165 points by ingve 33 days ago | 11 comments

Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm (blogs.amd.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, AMD, Open Source, Software

179 points by hochmartinez 34 days ago | 88 comments

AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Open Source, Generative AI, Local Computing

52 points by 01-_- 35 days ago | 18 comments

AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Open Source, Local Computing

11 points by rbanffy 35 days ago | 0 comments

Gaia: An Open-Source Project from AMD for Running Local LLMs (amd.com)
AMD has launched a new open-source project called, GAIA (pronounced /ˈɡaɪ.ə/), an awesome application that leverages the power of Ryzen AI Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to run private and local large language models (LLMs).

Open Source, AMD, AI, Hardware

15 points by T-A 35 days ago | 1 comments

Beyond the ROCm Software, AMD Has Been Making Great Strides in Documentation (phoronix.com)
AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering more robust container options for easier Instinct compute deployments with more software options available and being more regularly updated.

AMD, ROCm, Documentation, Software, Cloud Computing

5 points by rbanffy 38 days ago | 0 comments

AMD's Strix Halo under the hood (chipsandcheese.com)
At CES 2025 I got the chance to sit down with Mahesh Subramony, AMD Senior Fellow, to talk about AMD's upcoming Strix Halo SoC which is a brand new type of product for AMD and is the big iGPU SoC that many of us have been waiting for from AMD for a long while.

AMD, Processors, CES, Technology, Hardware

162 points by kristianp 43 days ago | 141 comments

TSMC Pitches Intel Foundry JV to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom (cnbc.com)

Semiconductors, Technology, Business, Partnerships, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom

9 points by alephnerd 45 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC pitches Intel foundry joint venture to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom (seekingalpha.com)

TSMC, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Semiconductor Industry, Partnerships

34 points by eagleislandsong 45 days ago | 3 comments

AMD EPYC 9845 Makes for a Persuasive Upgrade with Performance and Efficiency (phoronix.com)
With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot.

AMD, Processors, Servers, Performance, Efficiency

3 points by ksec 46 days ago | 1 comments

Strangest AMD Ryzen 7950x Bug (hjr265.me)
I upgraded my primary computer to the AMD AM5 platform sometime in mid-2023.

Hardware, AMD, Ryzen, Bugs

4 points by ingve 48 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D Pricing and Availability (forbes.com)
AMD announced today that its final two Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 3D V-Cache processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, will be available starting March 12th and confirmed pricing.

AMD, CPUs, Hardware, Pricing, Availability

5 points by shevis 49 days ago | 0 comments

AMD YOLO (geohot.github.io)
AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail.

AMD, Hardware, AI, Computer Vision

120 points by trulyrandom 49 days ago | 82 comments

AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: RDNA 4 fixes a lot of AMD's problems (arstechnica.com)
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT are its first cards based on the RDNA 4 GPU architecture.

Graphics Cards, AMD, Hardware Reviews

6 points by LorenDB 51 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models (phoronix.com)
AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models

AMD, Open Source, Language Models, Artificial Intelligence

165 points by rbanffy 51 days ago | 53 comments

AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models (phoronix.com)

AMD, Open Source, Generative AI

7 points by dralley 51 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance (phoronix.com)
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards.

AMD, Linux, GPU, Graphics Cards, Performance

13 points by mfiguiere 51 days ago | 1 comments