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Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Although this is not a ton of competition, some is better than none at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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.