By Max A. Cherney and Gnaneshwar Rajan
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su showed off a number of the company's AI chips on Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.
The advanced MI455 AI processors are a component in the data center server racks that the company is selling to firms like ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
Su also unveiled the MI440X, a version of the MI400 series chip designed for on-premise use at businesses. The so-called enterprise version is designed to fit into infrastructure
that is not specifically designed for AI clusters. The MI440X is a version of an earlier chip that the U.S. plans to use in a supercomputer.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman joined Su on stage and said chip advancements were critical to OpenAI's vast computing needs.
Looking to the future needs of companies like OpenAI, Su previewed the MI500 and said it offered 1,000 times the performance of an older version of the processor. The company said the chips would launch in 2027.
Earlier on Monday, Nvidia showed off its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, which is made up of six separate chips. CEO Jensen Huang said it was in full production. It is expected to debut later this year.
Nvidia has generated tens of billions of dollars in quarterly revenue from its AI chip sales, a feat that AMD has struggled to achieve thus far.
In October, AMD signed a deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI that will add billions of dollars to the company’s annual revenue. The first deployment of AI chips that incorporate AMD’s MI400 series will roll out this year.
OpenAI is a key customer of AMD and executives at the Santa Clara, California-based company expect the deal to lead to significant additional new sales.
(Reporting by Max Cherney in San Francisco and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman and Thomas Derpinghaus)
