Advanced Micro Devices has signed a woody with Facebook, which precocious rebranded to Meta, to usage AMD chips successful its information halfway computers.
Facebook is the latest institution to follow AMD's Epyc processors successful its data centers, AMD president and CEO Lisa Su said. With this partnership, AMD's Epyc processors are present being utilized successful the information centers of 10 of the world's largest hyperscales, Su said.
"We've been moving unneurotic to jointly specify an unfastened cloud-scale single-socket server designed for world-class show and power efficiency," Su said.
Epyc is simply a marque of microprocessors designed by AMD for high-performance computing and artificial quality applications.
AMD is formally headquartered successful California but astir of its operations and executives are based successful Austin. The chipmaker's banal surged Monday pursuing the announcement, ending the time up 10.1%, astatine $150.16.
The woody with AD besides comes successful the aftermath of Facebook rebranding to Meta to bespeak its increasing absorption connected the metaverse.
A metaverse is simply a benignant of virtual situation designed to connection a afloat immersive realm to users. The conception has been astir for years, astatine slightest to immoderate degree, successful video games and virtual worlds similar Second Life and Roblox.
AMD connected Monday besides announced a scope of caller spot offerings that volition physique connected the company's Epyc processors aimed astatine the supercomputing marketplace and the unreality computing market. It besides announced a spot designed to enactment artificial quality and a caller cardinal processor designed to assistance unreality computing companies.
"We are successful a high-performance computing megacycle that is driving request for much compute to powerfulness the services and devices that interaction each facet of our regular lives," Su said. "We are gathering important momentum successful the information halfway with our enactment merchandise portfolio, including Meta's adoption of AMD Epyc to powerfulness their infrastructure and the buildout of Frontier, the archetypal U.S. exascale supercomputer which volition beryllium powered by Epyc and AMD Instinct processors."
AMD has been progressively taking market share from rival and marketplace person Inte Corp., and AMD chips are being progressively being utilized by starring unreality providers including Microsoft, Google and Amazon.
The woody with Meta comes connected the heels of AMD's third-quarter net reports, which saw the institution study that income doubled connected an yearly basis. AMD had grounds gross of $4.3 cardinal for the quarter.
Patrick Moorhead, a exertion manufacture expert and laminitis of Austin-based consulting steadfast Moor Insights and Strategy, said portion AMD announced immoderate competitory products for high-performance computing, the concern with Meta yet drove much excitement.
"What got investors excited was the announcement that Meta would beryllium utilizing its Epyc server chips," Moorhead said. "The caller sanction affiliation is what got investors excited."
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