AMD announced next-generation data center and AI PC solutions

At Advancing AI 2024, AMD launched its latest-generation hardware solutions specifically tailored for the AI era. Some, like the AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators and 5th-generation AMD EPYC processors, had already been previewed in other events, including this year's Computex, where the company unveiled its roadmap for AI-ready products to power everything from data centers to mobile devices.

Regardless, the Advanced AI event featured a more well-rounded glimpse into AMD's planned data center ecosystem:

• AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors, based on the Zen 5 architecture, feature up to 192 cores and are available starting October 10 in platforms from leading OEMs and ODMs.
• In line with the company's annual cadence of AI accelerators, the AMD Instinct MI325X is now available as AMD readies to launch the next-generation MI350 accelerator series in Q3-4, 2025. The company also shared it has made progress in developing the MI400 series, based on the AMD CDNA Next architecture. The AMD Instinct MI400 series is expected to be available in 2026.
• AMD has developed a high-performance networking portfolio to maximize CPU and GPU performance and meet networking demands for AI infrastructure with the AMD Pensando Salina DPU and the AMD Pensando Pollara 400, the first Ultra Ethernet Consortium-ready NIC.
• AMD continues to build its open-source ROCm software stack, managing to double the inference and training performance for many popular models on the AMD Instinct MI300 series accelerators, and to provide out-of-the-box support for more than a million models.

During the event, several of AMD's partners, including Google, Databricks, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft, and Meta, shared some details on how they leverage AMD hardware to power their data center solutions, and some of their plans to adopt upcoming generations of AMD's hardware. Similarly, AMD hosted a developer event in which technical leaders from several AI companies discussed how they were optimizing models across AMD's hardware stack using vendor agnostic programming languages

Finally, AMD made some announcements related to its AI PC product line. Joining the Ryzen 9000 series and the Ryzen AI 300 series, the latter already exceeding the requirements for Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs, is the AMD Ryzen AI PRO 300 series processors, designed to power Copilot+ PCs for enterprise settings. The Ryzen AI PRO 300 processors feature the new AMD “Zen 5” and AMD XDNA™ 2 architectures. AMD has called them "the world’s most advanced commercial processors", with the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 delivering up to 55 NPU TOPS of AI performance. HP and Lenovo, which had already previewed consumer AI PCs featuring the Ryzen AI 300 series have committed to expanding their offerings to include the Ryzen AI PRO 300 series. Moreover, AMD expects the Ryzen AI PRO 300 will power over a hundred different platforms next year.