AMD at Computex 2024: AMD AI and High-Performance Computing with Dr. Lisa Su

The script opens with the anticipation of AMD's keynote speech at Computex 2024, highlighting the introduction by TAITRA chairman James Huang of the esteemed keynote speaker, Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's chair and CEO. The narrative underscores Dr. Su's pivotal role in AMD's transformation into a high-performance computing powerhouse, her recognition as the 2024 Chief Executive of the Year, and her advocacy for AI integration across industries. The summary sets the stage for Dr. Su's discussion on AMD's innovations in AI and high-performance computing, emphasizing the company's commitment to developing cutting-edge solutions and fostering an inclusive corporate culture.

This paragraph delves into AMD's strategic priorities in the realm of AI and high-performance computing. It discusses the company's focus on delivering a diverse range of energy-efficient compute engines, enabling an open and developer-friendly ecosystem, and emphasizing the importance of partnerships for co-innovation. The summary highlights the unveiling of AMD's new Zen 5 core and XDNA 2 NPU core, designed to deliver leadership performance for AI PCs, notebooks, and desktop processors. It also previews AMD's upcoming data center CPU and GPU portfolio, indicating a significant leap in performance and efficiency.

The script shifts focus to AMD's dedication to the gaming community, showcasing the company's technology in various gaming platforms. It introduces the Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, emphasizing their status as the world's fastest consumer PC processors with the new Zen 5 core and support for advanced IO and memory technologies. The summary details the technical advancements of the Zen 5 core, including improved branch prediction and reduced latency, and highlights the Ryzen 9 9950X's impressive specifications, positioning it as the fastest consumer CPU available.

This paragraph discusses the evolution of AMD's desktop platform, Socket AM4, and its continued support through 2027 with the Socket AM5. It also addresses the transition to AI PCs and the transformative impact of AI on user experiences, including real-time translations and personalized digital assistance. The summary introduces AMD's third-gen Ryzen AI processors, highlighting the Strix processor's integration of Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and the new XDNA 2 NPU, setting a new benchmark for AI performance in ultra-thin and premium notebooks.

The script highlights NVIDIA's AI technology and its role in shaping the AI era, focusing on the company's collaboration with Microsoft to bring Copilot+ PCs to market. It discusses the integration of hardware, operating systems, and software to deliver AI-powered user experiences. The summary features the introduction of Microsoft's Pavan Davuluri, who discusses the company's vision for AI in PCs, emphasizing the importance of on-device AI for privacy, cost-effectiveness, and responsiveness.

This paragraph underscores the importance of partnerships in driving the AI era forward, with a focus on the collaborative efforts between AMD and industry leaders like Microsoft, Adobe, Epic Games, and others. The summary previews upcoming Copilot+ PCs, showcasing the integration of AMD's AI technology in these devices, and highlights the commitment of companies like HP, under the leadership of Enrique Lores, to co-engineer solutions that enhance productivity and meet the demands of the hybrid work environment.

The script features Jonney Shih, chairman of ASUS, who shares his vision of AI PCs as disruptive innovations and the impending ubiquity of AI in various forms and sizes. The summary discusses ASUS's perspective on the role of AI PCs in the new distributed hybrid AI ecosystem, highlighting the benefits of local AI advantages such as latency, security, and personalization, and the potential of AI PCs to enhance productivity in various fields.

This paragraph outlines AMD's expansion into the edge computing market with its embedded and adaptive solutions, which are being deployed in healthcare, automotive, and industrial sectors. The summary highlights the capabilities of AMD's AI platforms in improving medical imaging analysis, enhancing automotive safety systems, and supporting AI-assisted robotics. It also introduces the next-gen Versal AI Edge Gen 2 series, which integrates pre-processing, inferencing, and post-processing in a single chip.

The script presents AMD's extensive portfolio of high-performance CPU, GPU, and networking products for data centers, emphasizing the company's ability to address a wide range of workloads. The summary discusses the performance and efficiency of AMD's EPYC processors in cloud computing and the upcoming 5th Gen EPYC processor, codenamed Turin, which promises to extend leadership in general-purpose and AI workloads with its 192 cores and 384 threads.

This paragraph discusses the importance of AI network fabrics and the announcement of an open standard for high-performance fabric, Ultra Accelerator Link (UA Link), developed in collaboration with industry leaders. The summary explains the significance of UA Link and Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UAC) in creating a complete networking solution for AI data centers, emphasizing the benefits of open standards for innovation and scalability.

The script concludes by emphasizing AMD's unique position to deliver a complete set of CPU, GPU, and networking solutions for modern data centers. The summary highlights the company's commitment to innovation, its accelerated roadmaps for Instinct and EPYC portfolios, and its collaboration with partners to deliver industry-leading networking solutions, positioning AMD at the forefront of the AI and high-performance computing landscape.