News AMD: Instinct MI300 APU with Zen 4 and CDNA 3 Up and Running in the Lab

[Admin]

Mark Papermaster says that AMD's 2024 data center APU for El Capitan is up and running in AMD's lab.

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[quadibloc2]

I will definitely agree that having both the CPU and a GPU compute accelerator working from unified memory is good. But the Holy Grail? Don't we already have something that also works from unified memory, but is much more flexible, and hence usable, than a GPU accelerator? I'm thinking of the SX-Aurora TSUBASA from NEC, which is, or at least was, the last survivor of the vector supercomputers that began with the Cray I. Although it appears that today both ARM and RISC-V are adding similar capabilities.

 

[bit_user]

it is unclear whether the company will supply the MI300 to any clients outside the supercomputer world in mass quantities next year.

I think that depends a lot on what socket or form factor it uses. OAM?

Also, I have to wonder whether it'll have any external DRAM, or if it'll be limited to just the in-package HBM.