AMD Plugs Machine Learning Into Upcoming Vega 7nm GPU

Putting together bits of information dropped during AMD's PC-heavy hour-and-a-half presentation, it becomes apparent that Vega 7nm is finally aimed at high performance deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) applications – artificial intelligence (AI), in other words. AMD's EPYC successes may be paving the way for Vega 7nm in cloud AI training and inference applications. AMD claims that the 7nm process node it has co-developed with its fab partners will yield twice the transistor density, twice the power efficiency and about a third more performance than its 14nm process node. An educated guess says that not all Vega 7nm products will sport this high-end memory configuration – I think that showing off 32GB was a pointed message to AMD's cloud customers. AMD's Infinity Fabric interface will enable high bandwidth, coherent memory communications between Vega 7nm chips and AMD Zen processor chips, such as AMD's Zen2 7nm server chips.