AMDCEO Dr. Lisa Su has held the opening keynote address forComputex 2024, and we were there.
Here’s all the live analysis and news as it happened.
Far more than last year’s Computex opening keynote.
Sigh, if I hear someone say “we tought sand how to think!”
I’m going to scream.
The head of Taitra the trade organization that puts together Computex, is speaking now.
So the move to AI is remarkable, but lets also keep it in perspective.
The AI we are dealing with now is not an ‘intelligence’.
It’s a very, very sophisticated algorithm.
Intelligence requires more than just a series of steps to acheive an output.
It requires you to make the cognitive leaps to create something in your mind that wasn’t there before.
Everyone is really banking on AI technology to help boost PC sales after a few years of declining sales.
AMD Zen 5 core incoming.
AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors are official.
An average of 16% uplift.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X first.
16 Cores, 32 threads, 80MB cache.
AMD Ryzen AI 300 series.
50 TOPS of Int8 AI performance.
The fastest NPU on the market.
AMD and Microsoft Copilot+ PCs are getting some love right now.
We’re seeing the Copilot+ pesentation we saw at the Microsoft Copilot+ event last month.
We’ll get there though!
150+ AI-powered software partners in 024, like Adobe.
Some self-deprecating language skill discourse from Dr. Su and Lorenz.
So now we’re looking at the other performance for Strix Point.
CPU performance is supantially better in some cases than competitors' chips.
3D rendering in Blender looks especially good for AMD.
Lenovo Yoga, ThinkPad, and ThinkBook laptops with AMD Ryzen AI 300 SoCs coming later this year.
Lenovo is developing its own app for assisting users in generating their own images using generative AI.
Jonney Shih, Asus chairman is on stage now.
He doesnothave a laptop with him.
Shih is talking about the future of the AI ecosystem.
OK, we’re moving onto enterprise/commercial stuff like healthcare, automotive, and industrial applications.
Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 early access now available for industry partners.
Now for data center.
Let’s see if we hear anything about energy efficiency.
yo, for the love of God, can we try and reduce all this power demand?
5th Gen AMD Epyc ‘Turin’ processors can have up to 192 cores and 384 threads.
AMD Turin on track for launch in the second half of 2024.
CTO of Stability.ai on stage now.
Stable Diffusion 3 Public Access launching on June 12.
Stable Diffusion 3 might finally get human hands right.
Shots fired at Nvidia H100.
Stable diffusion gets 32MP on H100, but can get up to 100MP on AMD Instinct M1300.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella makes an appearance via video.
All of these companiesreallywant AMD Instinct to be a thing.
Nvidia needs competition to bring the price of these GPUs down.
LOL, ok, nice dig at Nvidia there.
Lastly, AMD and others have partnered to create an open standard for GPU networking called Ultra Accelerator Link.
This is AMD vs Nvidia we’re talking about, after all.
We’re wrapping up now.
Take care folks, and as always, be kind to each other.
