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SoftBank Believes AMD’s GPUs Can Become Far More Useful for AI Thanks to a ‘Divide and Conquer’ Compute Strategy

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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…
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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…

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…

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TechNode Global broke the news in on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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