SoftBank Believes AMD’s GPUs Can Become Far More Useful for AI Thanks to a ‘Divide and Conquer’ Compute Strategy
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While the AI market has almost reflexively focused on NVIDIA's Blackwell accelerators, SoftBank is attempting to reshape the playing field with a comparatively pragmatic, yet strategically astute idea: hardware-level GPU partitioning for AMD's Instinct accelerators. At its core is close collaboration with AMD and the use of a proprietary orchestrator that partitions the AMD Instinct GPUs into […] Source
SoftBank Corp. initiated the process of joint validation with AMD for the use of the partition features of AMD Instinct GPUs, in order to boost and optimize the use of resources in its next generation computing infrastructure for AI workloads. In a statement, technology companies explain that large language models (LLM), currently used for Generative AI, require computational resources that vary considerably according to the number of parameters…
SoftBank Believes AMD’s GPUs Can Become Far More Useful for AI Thanks to a ‘Divide and Conquer’ Compute Strategy
SoftBank's latest initiative focuses on making the AMD Instinct AI chip much more powerful with AI workloads, through a "GPU partitioning" mechanism that sounds really interesting. SoftBank Has Deployed a Self-Built Orchestrator For AMD's Instinct GPUs, Dividing Hardware & Memory Pools AMD's AI infrastructure hasn't been the go-to option for hyperscalers in recent times, given all the attention towards NVIDIA, especially after the debut of the B…
Although AMD is currently playing catch-up to Nvidia in the AI accelerator segment, its strategic partnership with SoftBank could significantly strengthen its position. The companies have officially confirmed their intention to conduct joint trials aimed at integrating AMD Instinct solutions into next-generation AI infrastructure. The Japanese telecom giant's key concept is based... The post "SoftBank and AMD Develop Orchestrator Tool to Promote…
SoftBank and AMD to jointly validate utilization of AMD Instinct GPU for next generation AI infrastructure
Japan-based SoftBank Corp., together with the United States-based technology firm Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), commenced the joint validation of utilizing AMD Instinct graphics processing units (GPUs) in advancing next generation AI infrastructure computing resources. Softbank said in a statement on Monday that the verification is advancing the development of functionality to partition and properly allocate GPU resources according to requ…
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