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Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday. Based on all-new CDNA 4 and refined chiplet architectures, the GPUs seek to shake Nvidia's grip on the AI infrastructure market, boasting …

  1. anthonyhegedus Silver badge

    1.4kW on a chip!

    I just can't get my head round the extreme wattage per square cm and cooling needed. Amazing... no wonder we're going to need nuclear power stations next to every data centre.

    1. david 12 Silver badge

      Re: 1.4kW on a chip!

      No need for capital-intensive district heating projects. Just put a couple of these in every home, for a distributed heating solution.

  2. StargateSg7 Bronze badge

    OMG! Only 79 TeraFLOPS at 64-bits for the AMD MI355X?

    We UTTERLY OBLITERATE THEM and we are running at now 256-bits wide which is a heck of an improvement over our last-generation 128-bits wide Combined-CPU/GPU/DSP/Vector Array super-processor (see StargateSG7 Youtube channel and NorthCaandianAerospace for further details about the upcoming super-chip!)

    Our chips are the size of multiple bricks and literally consume a boatload of power BUT you can't fault the sheer number of PetaFLOPS we offer PER CHIP which is now into the 100+ PetaFLOPS range at a full 256-bits wide!

    I feel sorry for NVIDIA and AMD! It's gonna be a downright round-house kick and knockout blow once this new super-chip Tape-Out design and all documentation gets exposed to the public for world-wide, fully-free and open source under open source licence terms in the next few weeks!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Hello! I'm really incredibly excited about the potential for your incredible chips! I did as you suggested and visited your YouTube channel and the NCA website but both of them were completely devoid of any information whatsoever. Indeed, I'm not sure I was looking at the right YT channel because what videos I did find were of some kind of conspiracy nonsense, and I'm sure someone of your obvious intelligence and skill would hold no truck with any of that!

      When can I expect your website to be updated with the necessary information that I need to be able to persuade my boss to ditch all of our hugely expensive NVIDIA GPUs and run instead on your incredible new invention? I have staked my reputation on your product given the huge amount of effort you have put into publicising this work over recent times, so you'd better not let me down!

      1. Throatwarbler Mangrove Silver badge
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        Man, when you've been schooled by an AC, it's time to throw in the towel.

      2. StargateSg7 Bronze badge

        If you look in the comments section of the "Vrillon" video of the StargateSG7 youtube channel, you will note a full description of its capabilities. The tape-out design for the Combined-CPU/GPU/DSP/Vector Array super-processor was espoused on various websites as being 128-bits when in fact it has been 256-bits for quite a few years now. This was done as a bit of "Information Warfare" to ensure world-wide business entities, major intelligence agencies and the body-public DISMISS US as a bunch of internet cranks.

        That was done on purpose to obscure and confuse our true intentions which will be showcased publicly soon enough! There is a LOT of in-house research that can be done on base materials sciences, power and propulsion systems, visual and audio stealth, avionics, spintronics, aerospace systems, physics and medicine of all kinds, marine vessels and ground vehicles, adaptive and nightvision imaging systems, autonomous robotics, computer hardware and software systems and other types of data mining you can do with 20+ YottaFLOPS worth of data-centre supercomputing horsepower located in Northern British Columbia, Canada.

        We have a VERY PUBLIC DEMO planned which WILL REMOVE ALL DOUBT about our capabilities!

        Before that, you can download, modify and print-out the fully-ITAR-free tape-out design as worldwide fully-free and open source under multiple open source licencing terms including but not limited to GPL-3 licences. Even the 3D printer design that lets you burn the chip onto Borosilicate glass using inexpensive copper nanopowders, ceramic powder insulators and microcircuit/transistor dopants is fully free and open-source! The combined EDA chip design tools and our CAD/CAM/CAE/FEA/Simulation toolbar software is also ready for use to make whatever OTHER types of microcircuit designs you want whenever you want them at a consumer-friendly price point so keep looking and checking-up on NorthCanadianAerospace websites daily to finally see the welcome banner that shows that everything is up and running for immediate download.

        You have asked and so you shall receive!

        V

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Me again! Thanks for the pointer about the comments on the video. I have to say that it's not the kind of press release that I'm used to working with, but as you say, the old ways of doing things are going to shortly be made completely obsolete by all of this!

          The 23rd June!! Oh my word that's not a long time to wait now. I've pre-emptively cancelled a large NVidia order that we placed last year in preparation. We were due to get the GPUs in September but I've convinced my boss that we'll have no use for them now that we can print our own!

          You have saved my bacon my friend, and I cannot wait for the 23rd now. I've booked the day off work so that I can digest all the incredible detail that you're going to be releasing.

          The world is about to change!

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          You are a liar and a charlatan. I have been fired now and it's all your fault. How can you sleep at night knowing that you have written such lies and cost me my entire livelihood? You are a horrible, horrible person.

  3. JessicaRabbit

    I think it's long overdue we stopped calling these things GPUs, they've not been used exclusively for graphical processing for some time now.

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