The AMD Computex 2024 Keynote Live Blog (6:30pm PT/01:30 UTC)

Author: AnandTech

10:03PM EDT – And a quick video from Microsoft and Copilot+

10:03PM EDT – Microsoft just recapping their commitment to leveraging AMD’s new 3rd Gen Ryzen AI NPU within the Ryzen AI 300 series for mobile

10:02PM EDT – AMD also touching more on their Microsoft Copilot + partnership. Enter Pavan Davuluri from Microsoft to the stage

10:01PM EDT – 3 cakes, only 2 look edible

10:01PM EDT – Generative AI is a huge market, so no surprises AMD is going all out to stand out above Inten and Qualcomm. Block FP16 could be a pivotal move in Gen AI performance

10:00PM EDT – AMD’s new third generation NPU looks to bring a new AI floating point data type, the Block FP16, the speed of INT8 at the accuracy of FP16, without quantization penalties

09:59PM EDT – Also the Ryzen AI 9 365 which has 10C/20T with Zen 5, RDNA 3.5

09:58PM EDT – Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with 12C/24T of Zen 5 cores

09:58PM EDT – Note: That’s 5 TOPS more than the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip

09:57PM EDT – Introducting Strix Point, the Ryzen AI 300 series, new nomenclature, with XDNA 3.5, Zen 5, 3rd Gen NPU, up to 50 TOPS

09:56PM EDT – AMD currently switching to their mobile portolio. ALso introducing the 3rd Gen Ryzen AI NPU, developed with Xilinx

09:56PM EDT – The Ryzen 9 9950X (16C/32T), Ryzen 9 9900X (12C/24T), Ryzen 7 9800X (8C/16T) and Ryzen 5 9600X (6C/12T), coming in July

09:55PM EDT – Dr. Lisa Su is quicky recapping the AM4 platform, and boosting support for AM5 into 2027, instead of the previous 2025 timeline

09:54PM EDT – Some basic performance figures from AMD, but no actual data to go with it

09:54PM EDT – Ryzen 9 9950X has a 64 MB cache, much like Zen 4’s Ryzen 9 7950X, as well as 1 MB of L2 cache per core

09:53PM EDT – Dr. Lisa Su is claiming 16 % gains in IPC, and Lisa is showing off the Ryzen 9 9950X, 16C/32T, 5.7 GHz Boost, and at a 170 W TDP

09:53PM EDT – Also Zen 5 has a wider pipeline, although AMD hasn’t disclosed the finer details, these can be expected closer to launch

09:52PM EDT – AMD Zen 5 has a few updates over Zen 4, including a dual pipeline front end, improving branch prediction accuracy

09:52PM EDT – Introducting AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series for desktop. PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 inclusive

09:51PM EDT – And first up, gaming PCs. Not just desktops, but consoles and handhelds

09:51PM EDT – Introducing a number of new products, including the Zen 5 core, XDNA 3.5 for mobile

09:50PM EDT – And third, an AI ecosystem with deep co-innovation

09:50PM EDT – Open and proven soiftware capability

09:50PM EDT – AMD’s 3 priorities,broad portfolio of training and inference compute engines

09:49PM EDT – Currently recapping AMD’s varied range of solutions including computing, but their focus has quickly shifted to AI

09:49PM EDT – Dr. Lisa Su looking vibrant in her red/pink blazer, perhaps a sign of plenty of vibrant products

09:47PM EDT – And the moment we have been waiting for, Dr. Lisa Su has entered the stage to open Computex 2024

09:47PM EDT – And straight into a video highlighting AMD’s commitment to advancing AI

09:46PM EDT – And the AMD keynote is close to kicking off, just a quick introduction before Dr. Lisa Su joins the stage

09:43PM EDT – Currently watching a pre recorded video, although it is hard to tell if it is AI or actually real (a nod to generative AI)

09:42PM EDT – We’re still waiting on TAITRA’s Computex preview speech to wrap up. AMD’s live stream is also on hold until then

09:37PM EDT – Hello all, and we have a preview of what to expect to Computex prior to the opening keynote being delivered by Dr. Lisa Su

09:31PM EDT – And if you needed any guesses as to what the theme is for this keynote, AMD’s logo should tell you everything you need to know

09:30PM EDT – Our roving reporter Gavin Bonrshor is at this year’s show soaking in a wealth of information (not to mention the infamous Taipei humidity). He won’t be short of things to do over the next few days

09:29PM EDT – On the GPU/accelerator side of matters, AMD is mid-cycle (at best) with their Instinct MI300 series accelerators. With the company’s sales repeatedly beating their own expectations, AMD doesn’t seem to need much help moving this premium silicon right now. But with AI being the operative buzzword of this year’s Computex (and indeed, the computing industry as a whole), it would be weird for AMD to not have something to say about their rapidly growing AI accelerator product line

09:28PM EDT – Along with client chips, AMD has been pushing their server CPUs hard, and they’ve previously told investors that the next-gen EPYC Turin CPU is “looking great”. So we’ll likely hear about both client and server Zen 5 product plans during this keynote

09:28PM EDT – The big expectation here is fresh news around AMD’s Zen 5 CPU core architecture, and the chips built around it. AMD’s most recent Zen 5 roadmap has it slated to deliver all three flavors of Zen 5 by the end of this year, and we’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Zen 4 architecture launch

09:28PM EDT – Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show’s leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting a keynote entitled “The future of high-performance computing in the AI era,” and with a run time of 90 minutes, we’re expecting AMD to have a whole host of product announcements covering their full spectrum of product categories

Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show’s leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting a keynote entitled “The future of high-performance computing in the AI era,” and with a run time of 90 minutes, we’re expecting AMD to have a whole host of product announcements covering their full spectrum of product categories.

The big expectation here is fresh news around AMD’s Zen 5 CPU core architecture, and the chips built around it. AMD’s most recent Zen 5 roadmap has it slated to deliver all three flavors of Zen 5 by the end of this year, and we’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Zen 4 architecture launch.

Along with client chips, AMD has been pushing their server CPUs hard, and they’ve previously told investors that the next-gen EPYC Turin CPU is “looking great”. So we’ll likely hear about both client and server Zen 5 product plans during this keynote.

On the GPU/accelerator side of matters, AMD is mid-cycle (at best) with their Instinct MI300 series accelerators. With the company’s sales repeatedly beating their own expectations, AMD doesn’t seem to need much help moving this premium silicon right now. But with AI being the operative buzzword of this year’s Computex (and indeed, the computing industry as a whole), it would be weird for AMD to not have something to say about their rapidly growing AI accelerator product line.

Come join us at 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET / 02:30 UTC to get all the details.