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AMD takes on Nvidia with new Radeon Instinct chips for machine learning

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices is taking aim at Nvidia with its new Radeon Instinct chips, which repurpose the company’s graphics chips as machine intelligence accelerators.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD is following its rival into graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators for machine intelligence through a combination of both hardware and open source software. The new AI chips are based on the Polaris graphics architecture that AMD introduced earlier this year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.