AMD Unveils Threadripper Halo Station to Challenge Nvidia
AMD showed off a liquid-cooled workstation at IFA 2026 that it says can run AI models with more than a trillion parameters locally, without a cloud connection.
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AMD is a US chipmaker long known for its Ryzen and EPYC processors, now pushing hard into AI hardware with its Instinct line of GPUs built to rival Nvidia in AI data centers. This hub follows AMD’s AI chips, partnerships, and its bid to become a serious alternative to Nvidia’s dominance.
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Cerebras Launches CS-4, Claims 30x Faster AI Inference Than GPUs
Cerebras unveiled its CS-4 rack-scale AI system on August 18, pairing three new wafer-scale chips to push inference speeds it says beat GPU-based servers by up to 30 times.
Read more →AMD Acquires Taalas, an AI Inference Chip Startup
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto startup that etches AI models directly into silicon, aiming to boost inference speed and efficiency across its chip lineup.
Read more →AMD, Core Scientific Sign $14B Deal for Up to 2.5GW of AI Power
AMD and Core Scientific signed a 15-year infrastructure deal worth more than $14 billion, starting with 529 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity in 2027 and room to grow to 2.5 gigawatts.
Read more →What Is Disaggregated Inference — and How Does It Speed Up AI?
Disaggregated inference splits an AI model's two work stages onto separate chips built for each job — a technique now expanding beyond Nvidia to AMD and Cerebras hardware.
Read more →AMD and Cerebras Pair Chips for Faster AI Inference
AMD and Cerebras unveiled a joint AI inference system that splits chip work between AMD's Helios servers and Cerebras' wafer-scale engine, claiming up to 5x higher efficiency per watt.
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What Is an FPGA — and How Is It Different From a GPU?
FPGAs are chips that can be rewired after manufacturing. Here's what that means, how they compare to GPUs and ASICs, and why AI and robotics hardware increasingly relies on them.
Read more →AMD Unveils Kria AI Platform to Challenge Nvidia in Robotics
AMD launched a Kria AI system-on-module and robotics developer platform for physical AI, claiming faster real-time control than Nvidia's Jetson Thor chips.
Read more →AMD to Invest Up to $5B in Anthropic, Deploy 2GW of AI Chips
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply as much as 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs, one of the chipmaker's biggest moves yet against Nvidia.
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What Is AMD Instinct — and How Does It Rival Nvidia's AI Chips?
AMD Instinct is AMD's line of data-center GPUs built to train and run AI models — the main hardware challenger to Nvidia's dominance in AI computing.
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AMD Launches Instinct MI400 AI Chips to Challenge Nvidia
AMD unveiled its Instinct MI400 AI chips and Helios rack systems on July 23, claiming 34x faster inference, with OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic on hand.
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