Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers - ExtremeTech

AMD has made plans to enter these markets with deep learning accelerators based on its Polaris and Vega architectures, but those chips haven't actually launched in-market yet. By all accounts, these are the killer growth markets for the industry as a whole, and they help explain why even some game developers like Blizzard want to get in on the AI craze. As compute resources shift towards Amazon, Microsoft, and other cloud service providers, the companies that can provide the hardware these workloads run on will be best positioned for the future. Smartphones and tablets didn't really work for Nvidia or Intel–making AMD's decision to stay out of those markets retrospectively look very, very wise–but both are positioned well to capitalize on these new dense server trends. AMD is obviously playing catch-up on the CPU and GPU front, but Ryzen should deliver strong server performance when Naples launches later this quarter.