AMD Baidu Collaboration - Nvidia has a New Competitor in HPC

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is joining forces with Baidu (BIDU) to work on GPU computing in data centers. They are teaming up to enhance optimization for applications that use Radeon Instinct accelerators. Advanced Micro Devices is eyeing the high-growing neural network and machine learning market with its current Radeon Instinct efforts.

The company is targeting the machine learning and neural networks market with its new GPU architecture, Vega. It's finally targeting the right market. The company's new architecture supports FP16 and INT8 modes, which are highly beneficial for machine learning performance. 

The most significant take away from the recent announcement is the software optimization efforts. One of the widely cited cons for Advanced Micro Devices' data center offerings is the lack of optimization and software support.

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