DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Software, AMD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Samsung to fuel Korean robot ambitions as exclusive AI network provider
AI-RAN, 5G SA partnership with KT and SK Telecom to guarantee Korea's 6G and physical AI foothold in the 2030s
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Vultr adds AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs to its cloud platform
Two companies recently partnered with the University of Cambridge for a global environmental monitoring project
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AI cloud startup General Compute raises $400m in debt financing
Funding round underwritten by Upper90
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AMD acquires storage software startup MEXT
Startup's software treats flash like DRAM, potentially avoiding high memory storage costs
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Arista Networks joins the 1.6T race with AI-centric switch platform
7060XE7 line taps Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 while AMD enlisted for use in scale-out AI fabric designs
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Riot to convert cryptomine site in Texas to HPC, signs 25MW lease with AMD
Company becomes latest miner to pivot to hosting AI chips
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Tata Consultancy Services to offer AMD CPUs and GPUs as part of collaboration to boost AI adoption
Companies will jointly develop “industry specific” AI and generative AI solutions to support applications
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Vultr plans 50MW AMD MI355X cluster in Springfield, Ohio
Will see 24,000 GPUs deployed
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Australian AI startup Maincode to deploy AMD hardware at Telstra data center in Melbourne
Company looking to make Aussie sovereign LLMs
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Oracle to deploy cluster of 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs
Will be publicly available in Q3 2026
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AI research and product company Zyphra signs deal for large AMD MI300X cluster on IBM Cloud
Will be used to train "frontier" multimodal foundation models
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AMD signs agreement with generative AI startup Cohere for expanded use of Instinct GPUs
Comes as Cohere reveals $7bn valuation off the back of latest funding round
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Canadian AI startup Cohere valued at $6.8bn in $500m round with AMD and Nvidia
Developing a data center in Canada with CoreWeave
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Data center operators, suppliers, and chip designers form 'Coalition for Sustainable AI'
But it has no actual commitments
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G42 and DataOne to establish AI data center in France
Comes as AI lab Mistral announces its first dedicated French cluster
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xAI raises another $6bn, including from Nvidia and AMD
An early Christmas present for Musk
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Vultr launches AMD GPU supercomputer cluster in Chicago
Part of collaboration with AMD, Broadcom, and Juniper Networks
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IBM Cloud to add AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs in 2025
Another cloud adds AMD's GPUs to its offering
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OpenAI building first custom AI inference chip with TSMC and Broadcom - report
Abandons plans to establish network of foundries
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AMD Instinct MI300X GPU now available on Vultr's AI cloud
Also includes AMD ROCm open software
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AMD launches ROCm 6.2; adds FP8 support and enhanced AI training and inferencing capabilities
Software can now run on AMD’s MI300 accelerators
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Out now: The AI supplement
It's a supplement about AI in the data center, so of course we talk to Nvidia
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GPU cloud firm Nscale launches, offering access to AMD GPUs
Another crypto firm pivots to serve AI cloud customers
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Frontier supercomputer trains one trillion parameter LLM on just over 3,000 GPUs
New research paper discusses how this was achieved
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AMD launches MI300X GPUs and MI300A APUs in generative AI push
The new offerings include the first data center APU for HPC and AI workloads
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HPE delivers Austral supercomputer to CRIANN in France
Company gets 2 petaflops system
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UK government plans to spend up to £100m on AI chips
Government officials in talks with Nvidia, AMD and Intel