Lenovo has formed partnerships with both AMD and Nvidia to introduce two new workstations. T

Lenovo

AMD has announced a strategic collaboration with ECARX, a global mobility tech company, to develop an in-vehicle computing platform for future electric vehicles (EVs).

A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

ECARX

Companies that develop semiconductors that focus on automotive applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving as well as in-car entertainment and communication systems.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and NIO, a Chinese electric automobile manufacturer, have formed a collaboration to supply chips to NIO for their HPC (high-performance computing) platform, utilizing AMD's EPYC series of processors.

Facebook parent, Meta Platforms Inc, and chipmaker AMD are partnering for a mobile internet infrastructure program that would bring base station costs down to make broadband more accessible around the world.

A new generation for mobile connectivity with 5G and beyond

Next-gen Private Mobile Networks

Edge Computing

AMD Pensando

Companies that produce embeddable hardware, including microchips, that allow devices to transmit and process data.

Elliptic Labs and AMD have joined forces to bring Elliptic Labs' AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform to select PCs and laptops that utilize AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processors.

Elliptic Labs

Companies that develop low-power, high-performance semiconductors for sensors, wearables, and other connected devices.

Originally announced on October 27, 2020, AMD acquired Xilinix, a system-on-chip (SoC) manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum, to expand its portfolio of edge computing, graphics and adaptive SoC products.

Xilinx

AMD has partnered with Google Cloud to provide AMD EPYC processors for its new C2D virtual machine offering.

Alphabet

Companies developing semiconductors for other emerging tech applications, including quantum and edge computing.

AMD and Cudos have joined forces to deliver an exceptional gaming experience to fans around the world. This collaboration aims to combine the expertise of both companies to create innovative and immersive gaming experiences for gamers globally.

Cudos

AMD and GOATi have formed a collaboration aimed at providing gaming fans worldwide with an unparalleled gaming experience.

GOATi Entertainment

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its inaugural mobile processor that incorporates graphics from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Samsung Electronics

Eyeware Tech SA, a company specializing in head and eye tracking solutions, has partnered with AMD to supply patent-pending computer vision algorithms and machine perception AI technology for the new AMD Privacy View application.

Eyeware

AMD has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new Amazon EC2 M6a instances powered by AMD EPYC processors. T

Amazon

Companies that develop semiconductors to improve the performance of data center infrastructure.

AMD has partnered with IBM Cloud to enhance its bare metal service offerings using 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors.

To development of powerful third-generation Epyc chips.

Facebook

AMD and Microsoft Azure are collaborating to power the latest generation of Dasv5 and Easv5 Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor.

Microsoft

AMD has partnered with NVIDIA to utilize its Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors in the new GeForce NOW RTX 3080 membership tier. This collaboration aims to enhance cloud gaming experiences for players worldwide by leveraging the powerful performance and connectivity features of AMD's processors.

NVIDIA

To enhance Wi-Fi as a viable option for PC gaming by blending the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands to improve latency and performance beyond what a single high-bandwidth band can achieve.

Qualcomm

Companies that develop semiconductors that can support high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements of 5G networks and other wireless communication technologies.

To introduce a new feature called Wi-Fi Dual Station, developed in collaboration with Valve, AMD, and several OEMs.

Valve Software

AMD and Microsoft have partnered to enhance user experiences with Windows 11 on AMD Ryzen Processors.

To expand it Google Cloud's usage of AMD EPYC processors by introducing N2D Virtual Machines powered by AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors.

OctoML has partnered with AMD to support Apache TVM, enabling easy deployment of next-generation machine learning (ML) applications on AMD CPUs, GPUs, and APUs.

The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

OctoAI

Makers of hardware such as CPUs, GPUs, and other application-specific hardware required to train and run ML workloads.

To utilize AMD's AMD EPYC processors to power the new supercomputer, Polaris, at Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne National Laboratory

AMD and Siemens have partnered to demonstrate the advantages of cloud computing in electronic design automation (EDA).

Siemens

Microsoft and AMD have collaborated to showcase the benefits of cloud computing in terms of time and cost reduction for electronic design automation (EDA).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have deepened their partnership with the aim of accelerating time-to-value for companies dealing with demanding workloads and applications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

AMD and Google Cloud have collaborated to launch the T2D instance, which is part of the Tau Virtual Machines family powered by AMD EPYC processors.

To develop a semi-custom SOC that combines CPU, GPU, and machine learning technologies to enable enterprise-grade AR experiences with improved power efficiency.

Technologies bringing about a new reality

Extended Reality

Magic Leap

Companies developing XR headsets and relevant sub-components (displays, sensors, and processors). Also includes complementary XR hardware (tracking devices, haptic vests, and gloves)

To power the infotainment system of Tesla's updated Model S and Model X electric vehicles, providing high-performance computing capabilities for gaming and enhanced in-car experiences.

Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

Tesla

Companies providing in-vehicle infotainment products such as audio equipment and other electronic systems

The collaboration involves equipping the team with AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics Cards and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Desktop Processors, along with advanced Radeon Software for optimized gameplay.

A foundational component to the next generation of digital entertainment.

Esports

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

Companies recruiting players to form professional teams and rosters for esports tournaments and leagues.

Microsoft and AMD have strengthened their partnership through chipset collaborations across various flagship devices and services.

Honor has partnered with AMD to ensure a strong supply chain for its future devices.

HONOR

Acer has partnered with AMD to introduce an affordable Chromebook to the market.

Acer

IBM and AMD have entered into a joint development agreement to drive the progress of cloud confidential computing and artificial intelligence (AI).

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Partnered with OnLogic, an edge IoT hardware manufacturer, to launch a series of industrial servers that enable AI, deep learning, data analytics, and advanced automation at the network edge. The solution combines AMD's and EPYC chips with OnLogic's edge computing hardware.

OnLogic

Companies that provide software that facilitates analytics, cyber security, and IoT at the edge.

MediaTek is partnered with AMD for chip solutions.

MediaTek

AMD and HP have joined forces to collaborate on developing processing power solutions for the future. This partnership aims to leverage AMD's expertise in advanced processors and HP's innovation in computing technology.

ConsenSys

W3BCLOUD

AMD has partnered with SK Gaming to provide equipment for the organization's players, staff, and facilities in Germany.

SK Gaming

AMD and Oxide Games have announced a partnership to develop graphics technologies for the cloud gaming market. The collaboration will leverage AMD's gaming hardware and graphics expertise along with Oxide's development capabilities and Nitrous game engine.

Oxide Games

To use AMD's 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs in Microsoft Azure NVv4 virtual machines (VMs).

the N2D VMs on Google Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are a product offering resulting from the collaboration between AMD and Google Cloud.

AMD has partnered with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team and will sponsor the team by having their logo prominently displayed on the team's car, race suits, and trackside infrastructure.

MERCEDES-AMG

AMD and Microsoft have collaborated on a significant, multi-year co-engineering program to develop the 15-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop powered by AMD Ryzen Microsoft Surface Edition processors.

This collaboration enables Dell EMC to deliver powerful solutions capable of handling demanding workloads in a variety of cloud environments.

Dell

To develop a custom processor for Project Scarlett which builds upon the AMD Ryzen "Zen 2" CPU core and a "Navi" GPU based on next-generation Radeon RDNA gaming architecture including hardware-accelerated raytracing.

AMD and Samsung have formed a multi-year strategic partnership to collaborate on developing mobile graphics technologies based on AMD Radeon graphics IP.

AMD and HOSTKEY have collaborated to release AMD EPYC processor-based servers in HOSTKEY's infrastructure

Hostkey

AMD and NTT DATA have partnered to deploy AMD EPYC processors in NTT DATA's datacenter.

NTT Data

Partnered with Clearblade, an edge IoT software provider, to offer an edge-to-cloud computing platform featuring the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor. The solution enables enterprises to act on data retrieved from IoT devices.

ClearBlade

ConsenSys and AMD have formed a partnership called "W3BCLOUD" to develop blockchain datacenter solutions.

Bringing the benefits of blockchain to the enterprise

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

Companies and protocols that offer industry and context specific blockchain-based solutions for enterprise applications

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

Moreh is a US-Korean AI software tools provider that optimizes and creates AI models. Its flagship product is AI software, MoAI, which provides access to AI inference servers for training and deploying large language models (LLMs). The MoAI platform is powered by an on-the-fly IR constructor, a graph-level compiler, and a distributed runtime system. The MoAI platform primarily supports AMD ROCm and it has the capability to train and deploy multi-billion or multi-trillion parameter models,and&nbsp; program anything that is needed for pretraining, fine-tuning, compression. Furthermore, it has the ability to&nbsp; serve, scale to many GPUs/NPUs by automatic parallelization and optimization, virtualize all GPU/NPUs in a cluster for higher utilization and failover, and de-couple AI infrastructure from the specific hardware vendor.&nbsp;Moreh claims its platform is similar to NVIDIA’s CUDA and it is compatible with existing machine-learning frameworks like Meta’s Pytorch, Google’s TensorFlow, applications, and AI models that are not compatible with NVIDIA. Korean telecommunication KT claims that Moreh’s technologies work and perform above NVIDIA’s DGX in terms of performance speed and GPU memory capacity. As per Moreh, AMD’s MI250 Instinct accelerator powered by the MoAI platform has shown a 116% higher GPU throughput than NVIDIA’s A100, and it is also claimed that AI developers can reduce a tenth of the total time required to initiate large AI models via its software.&nbsp;Moreh completed the training of Korean language-based LLM with 211 billion parameters and aimed to release the model as open-source in the latter part of 2023.As of October 2023,&nbsp;Moreh claimed to have begun generating revenue in 2021 and aimed to have reached ~USD 30 million by the end of 2023.Key customers and partnershipsIn&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36142">November 2024</a>, Moreh partnered with AI semiconductor company Tenstorrent to integrate Tenstorrent's AI semiconductors (NPUs) with Moreh's software to support various AI applications, including LLM training and inference.&nbsp; The combined solution is expected to be commercialized by the first half of 2025.Korean telecommunication KT has been working with Moreh since 2021 to build a cost-effective, scalable AI infrastructure powered by AMD GPUs and MoAI software.&nbsp;MoAI is currently powering over 2,000 GPUs for commercial laaS/PaaS clouds and on-premise LLM training systems.&nbsp;

Fireworks AI is an AI startup that helps companies fine-tune and deploy Gen AI models. The company offers a platform that enables developers to leverage open-source models for their applications. Fireworks AI's platform provides access to over 100 AI models, including language models like Llama 3, Mistral, and Gemma, as well as image-generation models such as Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion XL. The company focuses on optimizing these models for speed and performance, with benchmarks showing up to 4x faster inference speeds and up to 8x higher throughput than alternative platforms.The Fireworks AI platform offers a serverless API for accessing these models, which is compatible with the OpenAI API, making it easy to integrate with tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex. In addition to providing access to pre-trained models, Fireworks AI offers fine-tuning capabilities, allowing developers to customize models using their proprietary data. The platform includes a playground for interactive model experimentation, as well as a CLI tool for fine-tuning.The company offers a pay-as-you-go pricing structure based on the number of tokens processed. Fireworks AI also provides on-demand deployments, where users can rent GPU instances (A100 or H100) on an hourly basis.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, notable customers, including DoorDash, Quora, Upwork, and startups like Cresta, Cursor, and Liner, used Fireworks AI.Fireworks AI has established strategic partnerships with several companies to enhance its offerings. In<a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/fireworks-ai-mongodb-fastest-ai-apps-with-best-models-powered-by-your-data"> May 2024</a>, Fireworks AI partnered with MongoDB to combine Fireworks' optimized models with MongoDB's data management capabilities. The company also partnered with LangChain in <a href="https://blog.langchain.dev/bringing-free-oss-models-to-the-playground-with-fireworks-ai/">October 2023 </a>to integrate Fireworks AI models into the LangSmith playground, allowing users to experiment with open-source models without requiring an API key. Additionally, Fireworks AI is part of MongoDB's AI Application Program (MAAP), which provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools and services to build AI-powered applications.

TensorWave offers cloud-based access to AMD data center GPUs (such as the Instinct MI300X accelerator) for LLMs and other AI workloads. The company was the one of the first-to-market MI300X launch partners, offering enterprises the choice between bare-metal nodes and fully-managed Kubernetes clusters.In&nbsp;<a href="https://gigaio.com/2023/12/gigaios-supernode-to-power-tensorwave-deployment-with-amd-mi300x/">December 2023</a>, TensorWave announced plans to build a bare-metal specialized AI cloud called "TensorNODE," powered by GigaIO's SuperNODE infrastructure and AMD's Instinct MI300X accelerators. The deployment aims to create the first petabyte-scale GPU memory pool, supporting up to 5,760 GPUs within a single domain using GigaIO's FabreX memory fabric.&nbsp;The startup's headquarters in Las Vegas allowed it to keep energy costs and overheads lower than in other major US cities. It generates revenue by renting GPU capacity by the hour (ranging from USD 1 to USD 10, depending on workload requirements) and requires a minimum six-month contract.Key customers and partnershipsIn&nbsp;<a href="https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tecfusions-signs-1gw-ai-infrastructure-deal-with-ai-cloud-firm-tensorwave/">October 2024</a>, TensorWave partnered with US data center firm Tecfusions to lease 1 GW of AI capacity across Tecfusion's data center portfolio. Other partnerships included 1) open networking solutions provider Edgecore Networks to support the growth of AI and ML workloads (<a href="https://www.edge-core.com/press-release/edgecore-networks-and-tensorwave-forge-a-partnership-to-deliver-high-efficiency-networking-solutions-for-amd-powered-ai-data-centers/">May 2024</a>) and 2) AI inferencing startup MK1 to offer a competitive alternative to NVIDIA's dominance by optimizing AMD's cloud-native hardware for inference workloads (<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240521368988/en/TensorWave-Partners-With-Neuralink-Engineers-New-Startup-MK1-To-Bring-Lightning-Fast-AI-Inference-to-AMD-Cloud">May 2024</a>).

Automation to improve business efficiency

Workflow Automation Platforms

Essential AI, co-founded by former Google employees Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar, offers AI products that learn and streamline workflows, automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks. With ongoing human input and technical advancements, its language learning models (LLMs) are designed to empower users to tackle increasingly complex challenges and enhance essential skills, thereby improving productivity.Key customers and partnershipsIn January 2024, the company<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26070"> partnered with Google</a> to use Google Cloud as its primary cloud provider to create LLMs that aim to increase business efficiency by automating routine tasks.

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

Hugging Face is an artificial intelligence company and open-source platform focused on natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Founded in 2016, the company has evolved from its origins as a chatbot app for teenagers to become a hub for AI models, datasets, and tools. Hugging Face's core offering is the Transformers library, which provides access to state-of-the-art pre-trained models for tasks such as text classification, translation, summarization, and question answering. The platform hosts over 200,000 models and 100,000 datasets, making it a central repository for the AI community.
Hugging Face's mission is to democratize artificial intelligence by making advanced models and tools accessible to developers, researchers, and companies. The platform supports multiple deep learning frameworks including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX, allowing users to easily switch between them. In addition to NLP, Hugging Face has expanded to support computer vision, audio processing, and multimodal AI tasks. The company offers both open-source libraries and commercial services, including Inference Endpoints for deploying models to production environments.
Key customers and partnerships
Hugging Face's technology is used by thousands of organizations across various industries. Notable users include Google, which utilizes Hugging Face models to improve its Bing search engine's natural language understanding capabilities. Other major tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel have integrated Hugging Face's tools into their AI workflows. The platform has also gained traction in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, with companies like Pfizer, Roche, and Bloomberg leveraging Hugging Face's models and infrastructure.
In 2023, Hugging Face announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the adoption of generative AI. This partnership aims to simplify the process of training, fine-tuning, and deploying Hugging Face models using Amazon SageMaker and other AWS services. The collaboration includes initiatives such as a North American roadshow featuring workshops and developer sessions to promote the use of open-source AI models in conjunction with AWS infrastructure.

Hugging Face, a French-American firm, offers an open-source and ML platform that allows developers and ML practitioners to collaborate and develop entire AI/ML models from training to deployment.Hugging Face offers a range of tools for data science hosting and development. These include a platform akin to GitHub for AI code repositories, models, and datasets, along with web applications for demonstrating AI-powered applications. Additionally, it provides libraries for tasks such as dataset processing and model evaluation. It has an enterprise version of the platform that supports both software-as-a-service and on-premises deployments.The company's paid features encompass AutoTrain, which streamlines and automates the process of training AI models; Inference API, which enables developers to host models without the need to manage underlying infrastructure; and Infinity, which is aimed at enhancing the processing speed of in-production models with data.In addition, it also offers pre-trained NLP models like BERT, GPT-2, and GPT-3 in its repository, known as the "Model Hub," which serves as a platform for sharing, downloading, and fine-tuning pre-trained models, fostering collaboration and reusability in NLP applications.Hugging Face acquired Seattle-based data storage startup, XetHub in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32483">August 2024</a> to integrate XetHub's technologies into the Hugging Face hub.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33399">September 2024</a>, the company launched LightEval, a new lightweight evaluation suite to assess large language models (LLMs). LightEval provides a customizable evaluation suite that works with Hugging Face tools like Datatrove and Nanotron. It supports evaluation on various devices, including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs, and can scale for both small and large deployments. Following this, in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/37250https://sp-edge.com/updates/37250">December 2024</a>, the company introduced Hugging Face Generative AI Services (HUGS), a new tool for deploying and scaling GenAI applications using open-source models.&nbsp;In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34633">October 2024</a>, Hugging Face launched Gradio 5 to develop AI-powered web apps and improve AI adoption of ML technologies.Key customers and partnershipsAs of February 2024, Hugging Face serves over 10,000 customers across 50,000+ organizations. Its revenue mainly stems from consulting contracts with major AI companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft.Hugging Face entered a strategic partnership with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/314571">Google Cloud</a> to allow developers working on Hugging Face to <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25911">leverage Google Cloud's infrastructure</a> and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/203208">Amazon</a> to make its platform available on the AWS marketplace. It also partnered with SafeCoder, a code assistant solution, to incorporate it within the Hugging Face platform to help customers develop new codes as well as improve existing code while preserving code privacy. In addition, it partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/431594">Graphcore</a> to release 10 new transformer models designed for Graphcore's IPUs.

Exploring the limitless possibilities of AI

Generative AI Applications

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Foundation Models

Hugging Face, a French-American firm, initially ventured into the development of chatbot applications before pivoting toward the development of a comprehensive platform for machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Foundation models are central to Hugging Face's offerings which constitute an expansive open collection. Among these models are transformer-based solutions:1.BERT, created by Google, can be used for more accurate language understanding by capturing contextual relationships and dependencies in text data2.GPT-2, developed by OpenAI, can be used for natural language processing tasks, including text generation and comprehension tasks3.RoBERTa, created by researchers at Facebook AI, can be used for a wide range of natural language processing tasks, including text classification, language generation, and sentiment analysisAdditionally, Hugging Face offers multilingual models to further extend its utility to a global audience. The models are accessible through the Transformers library, facilitating model loading and fine-tuning pre-trained models on custom datasets, which is also accessible via an API.&nbsp;The company launched Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with IBM, in August 2023. It's reportedly the platform's largest geospatial model and the first open-source AI foundation model with NASA. Trained on Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 satellite data, it claims to offer a 15% improvement in tasks like flood and burn scar mapping with minimal labeled data. It's adaptable for tasks like deforestation tracking and greenhouse gas monitoring.In April 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28611">Hugging Face introduced Idefics2, </a>a multimodal model to process text and image inputs and generate text responses. The model has 8 billion parameters, an open license, and improved OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities.In November 2024,&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35594">Hugging Face introduced SmolLM2</a>, a series of compact language models in sizes of 135 million, 360 million, and 1.7 billion parameters, available under the Apache 2.0 license and optimized for smartphones and Edge devices.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of August 2023, the platform served 10,000 customers across 50,000+ organizations on the platform.&nbsp;In April 2023, the company partnered with Snorkel AI, specializing in data-centric AI and machine-learning solutions to make foundation models accessible to enterprises for various use cases. As of August 2023, the company had collaborated with major cloud providers like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23926">In November 2023 </a>, Dell Technologies collaborated with Hugging Face to enable on-site deployment of Gen AI models, addressing enterprise worries about cloud expenses and data protection. The partnership offers an AI model library, infrastructure options, custom deployment tools for Dell servers, and access to training resources, simplifying enterprise processes. In January 2024, Hugging Face entered a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25911">strategic partnership with Google Cloud </a>to allow developers working on Hugging Face to leverage Google Cloud's infrastructure.In February 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27067">Hugging Face partnered NVIDIA and ServiceNow, </a>a provider of workflow solutions, to introduce StarCoder2, a family of open-access LLM code generation.Funding and financials&nbsp;In August 2023, the company raised USD 235 million in a Series D funding round from Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Salesforce, and Sound Ventures, bringing its post-money valuation to USD 4.5 billion. It planned to use the funds to further expand its efforts in research, enterprise, and startups and is set to recruit new talent to support its growth.&nbsp;It was also reported that the company generated a revenue of USD 10 million in 2021 and maintained an annualized revenue ranging from USD 30 million to USD 50 million.&nbsp;

TensorWave enables enterprises to harness the power of artificial intelligence and create innovative AI-based software.

Fireworks.ai offers a generative AI platform as a service. The company optimizes for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve.

Essential AI creates AI solutions that enhance efficiency through the automation of labor-intensive and repetitive workflows. Through a combination of human feedback and technological advancements, Essential AI's Large Language Models (LLMs) will enable users to tackle increasingly challenging tasks, unlocking essential skills and amplifying organizations' impact on society.

Moreh is an AI start-up that focuses on maximizing the scalability of the AI market. Its platform enables users to accelerate AI applications seamlessly on a variety of processors and diverse system scales, from single chips to large clusters, with the help of its compiler technology. Its global team comprises architects and engineers with comprehensive capabilities for AI infrastructure.

Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

W3BCLOUD is an exclusive joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), a high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies company, and ConsenSys, a blockchain software development and product company, building a global network of high-performance data centers to enable Web 3.0 and the blockchain economy.

Soft Machines is a semiconductor company focusing on co-developing VISC architecture-based processor and SoC products for all major performance computing platforms. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

InContext Solutions is the global leader in scalable web-based virtual reality (VR) shopping and retail solutions, allowing manufacturers and retailers to simulate real in-store shopping situations to ideate, evaluate and activate all types of merchandising, display, layout and other in-store shopping experiences within a VR store environment. Use of InContext’s ShopperMX™ platform delivers substantial cost savings and reduces capital expenditures by allowing clients to test and evaluate ideas in the VR store environment—as opposed to doing so in physical stores—while reducing competitive visibility.  Founded in 2009, we provide a unique, in-depth perspective on what consumers see on the shelf, how this drives their purchase behavior, and why. With custom virtual reality research and ShopperMX™—the world’s first cloud-based virtual reality simulation and shopper insights platform that enables users to create and manipulate 3D simulations of shopper experiences and retail environments—InContext Solutions provides the data and insights needed to make faster, smarter and more profitable business decisions.  We show clients how their ideas will play out in the real world—before they invest. From ideation of new in-store concepts, to evaluation with test shoppers, to activation in the market, our goal is to give clients confidence in their ideas so they can create winning in-store ideas and make smart business decisions. It’s hindsight, upfront.

BlueStacks is pioneering the next generation of cloud technology for the mobile ecosystem.   BlueStacks App Player enables the universe of Android games and apps to run fast and full screen on Windows PCs. App Player is powered by BlueStacks' patented LayerCake virtualization technology and has 145 million users.  BlueStacks 2, released December 3, 2015, users could now run multiple apps at once and navigate between each app in a browser-like tabbed interface.  With BlueStacks TV, released April 7, 2016, BlueStacks allows users to stream their gameplay directly to Twitch.tv with one-click.

ViVu delivers smarter videoconferencing solutions for global communications.  The companyâ€™s browser-based video platform is easy-to-use, affordable and requires zero download â€“ within minutes, people can videochat and share their desktops with small teams or up to thousands of people at once. Fortune 500 companies trust ViVu to power a better online meeting experience than legacy players. ViVu is compatible with PCs, Macs, Linux, mobile devices and the iPad. Go to www.vivu.tv to learn more about smarter videoconferencing.

Hitex can look back on more than 30 years of company history. After the success of the first in-circuit emulators, Hitex began marketing worldwide: the company founded a branch in Great Britain and is represented by sales partners in all other important regions of the globe.  In 1997, Hitex acquired the development tools branch of Kontron, thereby strengthening its position in the market.  Since the beginning of 2003, Hitex belongs to Infineon Technologies AG. This connection guarantees Hitex a solid and secure future and allows Hitex to maintain and extend its existing partnerships with other semiconductor manufacturers as an independent company.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics, processors, and media solutions for both commercial and consumer markets. focuses on innovations related to gaming technologies, surround computing, Pro graphics technologies, enhanced media, business technologies, server technologies, embedded technologies, security technologies, and mobility technologies.

<div> Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD) is a US semiconductor company that designs and develops processors, graphics units, and related technologies. AMD generated USD 22.7 billion in total revenue in 2023. AMD has four reportable segments: 1) Data Center (comprising Server CPUs, Data Center GPUs, FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs, and DPUs); 2) Gaming (consisting of Semi-custom Products, Discrete Desktop and Notebook GPUs, and Professional GPUs); 3) Embedded (comprising Embedded CPUs, APUs and GPUs, FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs, Development Boards, Kits, and Configuration Products); and 4) Client (consisting of Desktop CPUs, Notebook CPUs, Commercial CPUs, and Chipsets). The US generated ~35% of total revenue in 2023, followed by Japan (~20%), China (~15%), Singapore (~10%), Europe (~9%), and Taiwan (8%). Its sustainability plans include a 50% reduction in greenhouse gases (GHGs) from company operations by 2030 and a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD processors and accelerators by 2025 (from a 2020 baseline).&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div>

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Tim Keating Joins AMD as Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs

AMD Ventures

Companies that provide software to enable users to run their applications at the edge.

Companies that produce hardware and infrastructure such as routers and servers that are not embedded on devices.

Companies that provide software used in data centers to carry out operations effectively.

Companies that offer datacenter infrastructure to facilitate edge computing, including micro data centers deployable to more strategic locations.

Companies offering engines that enable the development of AR/VR content, also includes companies offering capabilities to capture and create 3D images for immersive environments

Companies offering AR/VR solutions or toolkits for specific industry applications, including VR game developers

Companies offering location-based AR/VR experiences

Platforms and frameworks that help developers build and train ML models.

Platforms that deploy and host the trained and tested models in production and integrate them into applications through APIs.

Platforms that generate artificial data that mimics the characteristics of real data, which is then used to train ML models at scale.

Platforms that help monitor and manage ML models in training and deployment to track performance, conduct variance analysis, and optimize performance.

Integrated solutions that handle the end-to-end processes of developing, training, deploying, and monitoring ML models.

Data exchange providers and platforms that offer data labeling services via manual and/or software methods, which are used as input to train ML models.

Integrated solutions that handle various processes such as model training, fine-tuning, model deployment, monitoring, and maintenance in working with and deploying LLMs

Platforms that provide hardware such as high-performance CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs, including cloud-based solutions that are commonly used to train and run GenAI models efficiently

Platforms that assist with fine-tuning pre-trained GenAI models or custom models tailored to specific use cases. Includes services that train models from scratch or use existing models

Platforms that store and retrieve training data in vector databases for access during the model training phase

Services to deploy GenAI models (on-premises or cloud-based) into production environments and integration tools to support existing systems and workflows

Ongoing monitoring of GenAI models to ensure performance. Includes regular model retraining, performance optimization, and troubleshooting

Platforms that assist in designing and refining prompts or instructions to GenAI models to get the desired responses or outcomes

Platforms that enable safe, responsible, and ethical GenAI deployment, ensuring compliance with regulations and/or protection against GenAI-based cybersecurity threats.

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 AMD has unveiled the Versal Premium Series Gen 2, a cutting-edge platform designed for system-on-chip applications. The platform dynamically adapts like a field programmable gate array (FPGA) and is tailored for data-intensive AI work in data centers, including those in the aerospace and defense niche. It will be developed and tested, with development tools available from Q2 2025 and silicon samples in early 2026. Production shipments are expected to begin in 2H 2026.
 Key features of the chip include a Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.1, PCIe Gen6, and LPDDR5X memory support in hard IP. The chip facilitates high-bandwidth interconnectivity between processors and accelerators and boasts ultra-fast LPDDR5X memory speed of up to 8533 Mb/s. The platform incorporates PCIe Integrity and Data Encryption in hard IP, ensuring high security and integrity of data.
 AMD asserts that the new platform surpasses its competitors possessing PCIe Gen4 or Gen5 support with 2x–4x faster line rates. It also assures up to 2.7 times faster host connectivity over its rivals using LPDDR4/5 memory. Furthermore, the platform permits scalable memory pooling and extension for multiple accelerators, contributing to a more efficient and effective computation environment.
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 AMD launched the Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip (SoC) in <a href="https: 
//timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/amd-announces-versal-premium-vp1902-soc-all-the-details/articleshow/101316199.cms"> June 2023 </a> . This SoC is noted for being the world’s largest adaptive SoC at the time, designed to enhance the verification of complex semiconductor designs and improve performance in various applications, including AI and autonomous technologies.

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