The most ambitious AMD energy efficiency goal yet by Sam Naffziger Senior Vice President, Corporate Fellow and Product Technology Architect  After achieving in 2020 the AMD 25x20 Energy Efficiency Goal for mobile processors, the company’s engineers were hungry for a new, bold challenge in processor energy efficiency to benefit customers and our world, which we have now identified. By 2025, AMD aims to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency in the rapidly growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) space.[1] The goal focuses on accelerated compute nodes i ..read more

For this year’s AMD Virtual Day of Service, we asked employees around the world to share the causes they are passionate about and how AMD has supported them in giving back to their communities. The pandemic created unique challenges to volunteering and AMD is extremely proud of AMDers’ devotion to finding alternative virtual ways to elevate their communities ..read more

A year ago today, AMD announced the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund. We donated products and expertise to leading institutions to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and to improve our ability to respond to future global health crises. Today, one year later, 23 grantees across seven countries are benefitting from the fund, which has grown to $20M in total market value. With 12 petaflops of total supercomputing capacity now awarded, the combined compute capacity donated through the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund would rank among the fastest supercomputers in the world according to the most recent Top500 list ..read more

Fast Company featured AMD as a Most Innovative Company in the Consumer Electronics sector. Read the latest blog from AMD CMO John Taylor as he reflects on the innovation AMD brings to a broad set of consumer products and experiences ..read more

Remote working was already on pace to become the new norm, however recent events across the globe have certainly accelerated that transition. Whether it is employees working from home, students engaging in distance learning, or family and friends catching up using web and video conferencing, there is in fact a new normal emerging: remote connectivity and collaboration.  This cultural shift where people are connected all the time and working from anywhere has made computers an attractive target for cybercriminals as more personal and confidential data is being stored on computer systems. A ..read more

In early March, I shared my thoughts for AMD’s future in PC and gaming during our Financial Analyst Day. I wanted to follow up on what I shared, specifically when it comes to consumer and commercial PCs. I would be remiss to not acknowledge the shift the coronavirus pandemic has brought, including a change in how many people view the PC. While smart phones have seen impressive advances over the past few years, the need for PCs to work, learn and play is not going away. Previously, having a PC at home was considered a one-per-family need. Now, with requirements around online schooling, working ..read more

Six years ago, AMD announced an ambitious project: the 25x20 initiative. It represented AMD’s vision to strengthen the energy efficiency of our mobile processors with graphics (APUs) by 25X by the year 2020. Today we are proud to announce that the award-winning AMD RyzenTM 4000 Series mobile processors  significantly exceed our goal with a final energy efficiency of up to 31.7X our baseline.[1] As we reflect on our path over these past six years, we admit that victory was not certain. Throughout that time, AMD made some critical strategic calls, among them being the investment in the “Zen ..read more

Energy efficient computing is more important than ever with the increasing number of electronic devices, explosion of data, artificial intelligence and other advanced applications. Launched in 2014, AMD’s 25x20 Energy Efficiency Initiative is the company’s vision for dramatically improving the energy efficiency of mobile devices powered by AMD processors. Five years into this six-year bold goal to achieve at least 25 times more energy efficiency in AMD’s accelerated processors (APUs) for mobile devices since 2014, the company continues to be focused in its vision and remains on track to reach ..read more

Hi Everyone, We are focusing on meeting the strong demand for our 3rd generation AMD Ryzen processors in the market and now plan to launch both the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X and initial members of the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor family in volume this November. We are confident that when enthusiasts get their hands on the world’s first 16-core mainstream desktop processor and our next-generation of high-end desktop processors, the wait will be well worth it. Thank you  AMD Corporate ..read more

Listening to users on how our products operate in the real world is very important to AMD. Your collective voice is heard and is key to how we develop and build great products like our recently launched 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen processors. With our newest processors, we set out to build a family of products that offered outstanding performance and amazing value across a wide number of applications – and from the user response and third party reviews we have done just that.  Alongside this feedback on the incredible performance of 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen, we have also heard from some users who expresse ..read more