AsianFin — AMD has announced plans to launch its next major data center GPUs, the AMD Instinct MI350 series, ahead of schedule.
During the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call on Tuesday, AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed that the MI350 will be sampled with "lead customers" this quarter, with production shipments now set to accelerate to mid-year.
"We had previously stated that we thought we would launch [the MI350] in the second half of [2025]," Su said. "Frankly, that bring-up has gone better than expected, and there's very strong customer demand, so we are pulling that production ramp into the middle of the year, which improves our relative competitiveness."
While AMD’s data center revenue remains significantly smaller than Nvidia’s, which regularly surpasses tens of billions of dollars per quarter, the company has gained momentum in the past year, securing major customers such as Meta, Microsoft, and IBM.
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