Advanced Micro Devices Inc Stock Price, News & Analysis

AMD has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, enhancing its market position by collaborating with AWS Partners. This co-sell initiative aims to connect AMD with AWS sales, facilitating access to resources, reduced listing fees, and incentives for AWS sales teams. The program enables AMD to showcase its EPYC™ processors, which offer superior price-performance ratios, with up to 65% better performance compared to standard options. Additionally, AMD's solutions will be integrated across AWS's vast infrastructure, including 23 regions and 70 availability zones, ensuring broad customer adoption. AMD underwent rigorous evaluations for program acceptance, emphasizing its commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

The AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series graphics cards have been unveiled, featuring advanced AMD RDNA 3 architecture, delivering enhanced performance and efficiency for professional workloads. The flagship AMD Radeon PRO W7900 boasts 61 TFLOPS of peak single precision performance and 48GB of GDDR6 memory, providing a 1.5X performance increase over the previous generation. The W7800 model supports 45 TFLOPS with 32GB of memory. Both cards integrate AMD's innovative chiplet design and the Radiance Display Engine with DisplayPort 2.1, ensuring superior visual fidelity and multi-tasking capabilities. Pricing starts at $3,999 for the W7900 and $2,499 for the W7800, with availability expected in Q2 2023.

AMD announced the launch of the Alveo MA35D media accelerator, a purpose-built video processing unit that enhances live interactive streaming services. This accelerator supports AV1 compression and features two 5nm ASIC-based VPUs, delivering up to 32x 1080p60 streams per card. The MA35D offers significant improvements over its predecessor, the Alveo U30, with 4x higher channel density, 4x lower latency in 4K, and 1.8x greater compression efficiency. Designed to minimize infrastructure costs, it enables high-volume streaming while maintaining low power consumption. The product is currently sampling, with production shipments anticipated in Q3 2023, supported by an Early Access Program for developers. This innovation positions AMD to capitalize on the growing demand for immersive live content.

AMD and Samsung Electronics have extended their multi-year agreement to integrate AMD Radeon graphics technology into Samsung's Exynos System-on-Chip (SoC) portfolio. This partnership aims to enhance mobile gaming experiences by delivering console-level graphics performance while maintaining low power consumption. The collaboration builds on their previous work, which began in 2019, and has already led to innovations such as the Xclipse GPU featuring AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, enabling hardware-accelerated ray tracing for mobile devices. The extension signifies a strong commitment from both companies to advance mobile graphics technology.

AMD has announced the appointment of Jack Huynh as the new senior vice president and general manager of Computing and Graphics, succeeding Rick Bergman, who is retiring. Huynh, a veteran of over 24 years at AMD, will oversee the company's semi-custom business and report to CEO Dr. Lisa Su. The management change highlights AMD's focus on long-term growth opportunities within the Computing and Graphics segment, aiming to leverage high-performance CPU and GPU capabilities while enhancing their gaming solutions. Bergman will assist during the transition until the end of Q2 2023.

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) will host its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 18, 2023, at 9 a.m. PDT, accessible virtually. Interested parties can attend via this link. Key voting matters are detailed in AMD's 2023 Proxy Statement filed with the U.S. SEC and can be reviewed alongside the Annual Report at ir.amd.com.

Real-time audio of the meeting will be available at the same link, with a replay accessible 24 hours post-event for up to one year.

AMD has introduced the EPYC Embedded 9004 Series processors at Embedded World 2023, emphasizing their energy efficiency and performance for embedded systems. Built on the 5nm 'Zen 4' architecture, these processors range from 16 to 96 cores with a thermal design power (TDP) between 200W and 400W. Key features include enhanced security and scalability, making them suitable for applications like embedded networking and industrial edge servers. Initial deployments include Siemens and Advantech, highlighting their reliability and power efficiency. Production shipments are expected to start in April 2023.

AMD has appointed five industry experts as Corporate Fellows, recognizing their significant contributions to semiconductor innovation. The honorees include:

• David Blythe: Former Intel GPU architect with over 30 years in graphics architecture.
• Nathan Kalyanasundharam: Expert in modular design, instrumental in AMD Infinity Fabric™ and the Frontier supercomputer.
• Suresh Ramalingam: Specialist in advanced packaging techniques, focusing on 2.5D and 3D technologies.
• Ben Sander: AMD veteran, co-founder of Radeon Open Compute (ROCm™) project.
• Ralph Wittig: AI and machine learning expert with over 25 years at Xilinx.

This initiative aims to enhance AMD's innovative edge in high-performance computing.

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the formation of a Telco Solutions testing lab in collaboration with VIAVI, enhancing its 5G partner ecosystem which has doubled in the past year. The testing lab aims to support telco operators by validating and scaling computing resources for RAN and edge-to-core requirements. Additionally, AMD introduced new Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC devices designed for emerging 4G/5G markets, optimizing performance and energy efficiency. The collaboration with Nokia focuses on using 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors to enhance Cloud RAN solutions, addressing energy efficiency in 5G networks. AMD will showcase these innovations at MWC Barcelona 2023.