The demands of AI data centers compute capability are set to increase dramatically from around 100 ZettaFLOPS today to around 10+ YottaFLOPS* in the next five years (approximately by about 100 times), according to AMD. Thus, to stay relevant, hardware makers must increase performance of their products across the full stack every year. AMD does its best, so during the company's CES keynote its chief executive Lisa Su announced Instinct MI500X-series AI and HPC GPUs due in 2027.
"Demand for compute is growing faster than ever," said Lisa Su, chief executive of AMD. "Meeting that demand means continuing to push the envelope on performance far beyond where we are today. MI400 was the major inflection point in terms of delivering leadership training across all workloads, inference, and scientific computing. We are not stopping there. Development of our next-generation MI500-series is well underway. With MI500, we take another major leap on performance. It is built on our next gen CDNA 6 architecture [and] manufactured on 2nm process technology and uses higher speed HBM4E memory."
