News AMD uses Ryzen AI to upscale old 40th Anniversary special featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

[Admin]

AMD is celebrating its 55th year anniversary with its Ryzen AI technology. The company posted several old images of its employees that have been restored through AI. It also 4K upscaled its 14 year old 40th anniversary special.

AMD uses Ryzen AI to upscale old 40th Anniversary special featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang : Read more

 

[Giroro]

Semiconductors used to be so exciting, competitive, and inventive. It felt like anything was possible, and that the impossible would become a reality faster than you could even get your brand new PC out of the box.

Now the industry is in a sad state where AMD can't even celebrate it's own 55th anniversary without making it all about Nvidia and Jensen.

 

[Notton]

I find it disappointing AMD didn't release a 40th anniversary product like Intel did with the Pentium 20th G3258.

 

[edzieba]

Those are some... embarrassingly bad samples to put out officially. Take the two Saturn V photos: the VAB shot has a wall that is randomly pink or green depending on where in the image it is, and the monochrome Saturn V has become pink too (and those bell covers were red) - particularly egregious when the real colour image exists! The liftoff shot has been slathered with so much denoising it looks like something from the bad old days of WarpSharp... except for two rectangles (water to the left of the speaker, and sky above the LH2 sphere next to the flagpole) where the film grain has instead been sharpened.

If your promos look worse than scaling tools were achieving many years before the current AI boom, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of your supposed AI capability.

 

[peachpuff]

I find it disappointing AMD didn't release a 40th anniversary product like Intel did with the Pentium 20th G3258.

So exciting...

 

[ivan_vy]

Those are some... embarrassingly bad samples to put out officially. Take the two Saturn V photos: the VAB shot has a wall that is randomly pink or green depending on where in the image it is, and the monochrome Saturn V has become pink too (and those bell covers were red) - particularly egregious when the real colour image exists! The liftoff shot has been slathered with so much denoising it looks like something from the bad old days of WarpSharp... except for two rectangles (water to the left of the speaker, and sky above the LH2 sphere next to the flagpole) where the film grain has instead been sharpened.

If your promos look worse than scaling tools were achieving many years before the current AI boom, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of your supposed AI capability.

is not about to show the results but to showcase what the Ryzen AI chip can do

Footnotes:

1. AI restoration, colorization and upscaling techniques do not replace professional restoration and may result in inaccurate outputs and are only being shown for entertainment purposes.

https://community.amd.com/t5/ai/amd...-relive-history-with-amd-ryzen-ai/ba-p/681734

 

[w_barath]

Aaron Klotz: AMD has had a crazy ride since its debut in 1969. The company has been at the forefront of modern technology since the beginning, being responsible for making the worlds first 64-bit CPU

Um... not so much. AMD and Intel were pretty late to the 64-bit CPU party. Many other CPU vendors had 64-bit CPUs 30+ years before x86-64 appeared.

However, AMD was the first to market a 64-bit Consumer Laptop CPU - the Turion64.

For more about the timeline of 64-bit CPU tech, see 64-bit_computing at Wikipedia.

 

[cryoburner]

Those are some... embarrassingly bad samples to put out officially.

At least it shows that they didn't fake the results. : P Really though, the AI can only do so much in terms of picking colors when colorizing a black and white photo. In some of the simpler images it seemed to fare better, and produced relatively vibrant results. The groundbreaking photo and the merger one were rather rough though. Why bother colorizing a black and white photo using modern hardware if you are going to make it look like a colorization attempt performed 50+ years ago, with desaturated colors and odd color choices?

 

[pug_s]

I recall the ex-CEO Jerry Sanders said "Real Men have Fabs." Famous last words.

 

[HassanJassan]

I recall the ex-CEO Jerry Sanders said "Real Men have Fabs." Famous last words.

Hector Ruiz nearly killed AMD. So they had to sell the Fabs. He is the worst CEO ever.

 

[HassanJassan]

Rory Read and Hector Ruiz were terrible CEO's.

Rory Read wasted $334 million on SeaMicro only to shut it down after losses...

And Hector Ruiz nearly destroyed AMD costing them Billions...

Someone needs to make a documentary about it.

 

[endocine]

Semiconductors used to be so exciting, competitive, and inventive. It felt like anything was possible, and that the impossible would become a reality faster than you could even get your brand new PC out of the box.

its more exciting and inventive now than it has ever been, what are you talking about? AMD has released 192 core CPUs, broke the stagnation of 4 cores on desktop, offered up new levels of performance per watt, there's usable integrated GPUs, new and faster IO, compare a laptop from 10 years ago to now, whats not exciting about that?

I recall the ex-CEO Jerry Sanders said "Real Men have Fabs." Famous last words.

AMD will understand what Jerry Sanders was talking about when there is a hot war over Taiwan

 

[Notton]

The only good thing? Hector Ruiz managed to do for AMD was buy ATi.

 

[barryv88]

That was very respectful of AMD to include Jensen. Rivals shouldn't be enemies. And at some point when the two collaborate, it may just result in better products and better choice for us consumers.
Congrats to AMD with their anniversary!

 

[allanhe]

One correction. AMD spun off its non-volatile memory business as Spansion LLC in 2005, and in 2009 spun off its fab business which became GlobalFoundries LLC.

 

[allanhe]

Rory Read and Hector Ruiz were terrible CEO's.

Rory Read wasted $334 million on SeaMicro only to shut it down after losses...

And Hector Ruiz nearly destroyed AMD costing them Billions...

Someone needs to make a documentary about it.

To be fair, Rory was inspiring to the AMD teams during those darkest days. One of his biggest achievements was to successfully persuaded and got Lisa Su on board!!

 

[Geef]

...AI working on old picture... error!
Human in picture only has 4 fingers and a thumb... adding an extra finger... making it bent backwards so its more useful.
...Processing complete...