{"id":22929,"date":"2023-05-05T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107235824"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T15:42:23","slug":"amd-jumps-on-report-microsoft-is-collaborating-on-a-i-chip-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/amd-jumps-on-report-microsoft-is-collaborating-on-a-i-chip-push\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD jumps on report Microsoft is collaborating on A.I. chip push"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/amd-jumps-on-report-microsoft-is-collaborating-on-a-i-chip-push.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-105886447\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Lisa Su, CEO, AMD<\/p>\n<p>Scott Mlyn | CNBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\" readability=\"44.894590072504\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">AMD<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> shares rose as much as 12% on Thursday following a media report claiming the chipmaker was working with <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Microsoft<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> on a new artificial-intelligence processor. AMD stock was up 6% at the end of the day&#8217;s trading session.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s top competitors in the cloud infrastructure market, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Amazon<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-4\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Alphabet<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>, both have their own specialized chips that software developers can use to train models. But Microsoft to date has not released a special-purpose AI chip. The one in development in partnership with AMD carries the code name Athena, and it will be able to train models and make inferences on new data, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-5\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Nvidia<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> shares moved lower following the report. Like other large technology companies, Microsoft relies on Nvidia graphics processing units to run AI models.<\/p>\n<p>AMD and Microsoft both declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n<p>The need for silicon that can handle AI has become more critical than ever in the past six months, particularly at Microsoft, which provides the computing resources for startup OpenAI&#8217;s viral ChatGPT chatbot. The technology has required thousands of Nvidia GPUs, <span class=\"waslinkname\">Microsoft has said<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>But Microsoft also needs chips to run its own applications that draw on the GPT-4 large language model at the heart of ChatGPT. Large language models belong to a class of generative AI technologies that can create content such as text in response to human input. <span class=\"waslinkname\">Microsoft&#8217;s Bing chatbot<\/span> incorporates the GPT-4 model, and the software maker has announced security and productivity programs that will use it as well.<\/p>\n<p>AMD is already a chip supplier to Microsoft, as well as other cloud providers, such as Google and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-8\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Oracle<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\">Read the full Bloomberg report here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: Removes prior reference to funding from Microsoft.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Su, CEO, AMD Scott Mlyn | CNBC AMD shares rose as much as 12% on Thursday following a media report claiming the chipmaker was working with Microsoft on a new artificial-intelligence processor. AMD stock was up 6% at the end of the day&#8217;s trading session. 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