AI giveth and AI taketh CPU

About this episode

Ryan interviews AMD CTO Mark Papermaster about AMD's silicon strategy for AI and the challenges of AI workloads.

Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, how chipmakers are dealing the wide range of AI workloads from training to inference, and the paradox of agents both eating up all the compute and helping AMD accelerate chip innovation.  Episode notes:   Want to learn more about the topics Mark and Ryan discussed in this episode? Check out the AMD Advanced Insights podcast , a monthly show hosted by Mark. Connect with Mark on LinkedIn .   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Guest: Mark Papermaster

Topics covered

• AI
• silicon strategy
• CPU
• GPU
• chip innovation
• compute workloads

Keywords

• AI
• AMD
• silicon strategy
• CPU
• GPU
• chip innovation
• compute
• workloads

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AMD, AMD Advanced Insights, LinkedIn, Art19

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