Advanced Micro Devices will officially be announcing the company’s next-generation EPYC processors with 3D V-cache and Instinct MI200-series accelerators next Monday at their special online event. However, AMD has given us a surprise and has given us some information as to what it is planning on announcing during the event.
Lisa Su, the chief executive officer of AMD, has posted on an official Twitter a picture of herself with a 2-way CPU/8-way GPU server in the background. The image of the CEO also includes AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct branding, which gives an obvious idea regarding what the company is planning to announce and demonstrate.
However, there are also some things which we need to discuss at the event, as of now the announcement regarding AMD’s next-generation EPYC 7004-series ‘Genoa’ processors is rather far out, so they won’t be discussed on Monday.
Also, the chipmaker will most probably talk about its EPYC 7003-series ‘Milan-X’ CPUs with 3D V-cache, and it is assumed that these upcoming processors are projected to be drop-in compatible with existing motherboards.
But what we are waiting for is AMD’s next-generation Instinct MI200-series compute accelerators codenamed Aldebaran based on the CDNA 2 architecture. This will be AMD’s first multi-chip-module (MCM) compute GPU comprised of two dies connected using AMD’s Infinity Fabric that is equipped with 128GB of HBM2E memory. The Instinct MI200-series will reportedly be using the OAM (Open Accelerator Module) form-factor and it seems that the part is going to look like this.
Both AMD EPYC 7003-series and AMD Instinct MI200-series accelerators are set to power numerous upcoming supercomputers, including the first exascale-class system Frontier as well as setonic.
Let’s for AMD’s official event to get more information related to the upcoming entries from AMD.
