AMD's CTO says AI inference will move out of data centers and increasingly to phones and laptops

AMD's CTO says AI inference will move out of data centers and increasingly to phones and laptops

Mark Papermaster is CTO of AMD.2025 ARPA-E Energy Innovation SummitAMD sees the AI inference shift as a chance to grab market share from Nvidia.AI inference will move from data centers to edge devices, like smartphones, AMD's CTO says.Mark Papermaster expects an AI 'killer app' in the next three to six years.The lion's share of artificial intelligence workloads moving from training to inference is great news for AMD, its CTO said.AI training wor…

It was actually only a matter of time before AMD switched its Threadripper series to Zen 5. What is surprising, however, is the range of SKUs that have surfaced. In addition to the usual muscle-flexing 64-core processors and the expected mid-range processor with 16 cores, a model with only 12 cores appears in the shipping manifests – a previously unusual option in […] Source

AMD's Threadripper 9000 "Shimada Peak" Workstation CPU Lineup To Feature a 12-Core Variant; New SKUs Spotted In Shipping Manifests

AMD Zen5-based Threadripper "Shimada Peak" CPUs have been spotted in shipping manifests, revealing 64-core, 16-core, and 12-core variants.