Sep 29, 2023 07:00:00

AMD executives declare that AMD's top priority is the development of ``ROCm (Radeon Open Compute platform)'', counterattacking NVIDIA by adopting open source programming language ``Triton''

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AMD ' develops and manufactures the CPU series ' Ryzen ' and the GPU series ' Radeon '. Regarding its top priority, AMD says, `` ROCm , a GPU environment and platform for machine learning, is AMD's highest priority business.''

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Until now, AMD's ROCm has lagged behind rival NVIDIA's GPU software

CUDA . Therefore, starting in 2022, AMD has set the development of ROCm as a top priority within AMD, and has launched a new organization packed with the software development and other know-how that AMD has cultivated over the years.

'Developing and managing complex software is a journey and takes a lot of time,' said Vamsi Boppana, AMD's senior vice president of AI. We have succeeded in evolving this.'

Also, according to Mr. Boppana, AMD CEO Lisa Su also wants to make large-scale and continuous investments in software. Therefore, it has been reported that AMD has launched a group to develop AMD's own AI models in order to improve the user experience using its own software stack.

AMD is also working on unifying ROCm, a GPU platform for data centers, Vitis AI , an AI inference development platform, and ZenDNN , an AI inference library. 'Unifying these three stacks is not an easy task, but underlying these stacks is a common development infrastructure and tools,' Boppana said. I plan on going,' he said.

In contrast to CUDA, NVIDIA's computing platform, which requires extremely complex programming, AMD's ROCm uses OpenAI's open source programming language for neural networks, Triton . Developers who want to write high-level code can use Triton for programming, which is not only open source and transparent, but also easier to write than CUDA.

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'We partner with engineers who develop AI frameworks and AI inference libraries to optimize our source code,' Boppana said. 'The introduction of Triton, an open source programming language, has contributed to improved performance. 'It's important to create very powerful tools because there are a lot of users who can help.'

Boppana further said, ``We at AMD are still in the process of growth.By placing the development of ROCm as our top priority, we will grow ROCm together with the community and close the gap with NVIDIA.'' I'm talking about the outlook.

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