AMD announces that processor energy efficiency for AI training and high-performance computing applications will increase by 30 times by 2025

Santa Clara, California 09/29/2021 --   AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that it will achieve a 30-fold increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators by 2025. These products will provide computing power support for AI training and high-performance computing applications running on accelerated computing nodes. To achieve such a grand goal, AMD needs to increase the energy efficiency of a computing node by more than 2.5 times the overall industry growth rate in the past 5 years.

Accelerated computing nodes are powerful and advanced computing systems used in scientific research and large-scale supercomputer simulations worldwide. They can provide scientists with powerful computing power, achieving breakthroughs in many fields such as materials science, meteorological prediction, genomics, new drug development, and alternative energy. Accelerating nodes is still necessary for training AI neural networks, AI neural networks are currently being applied in speech recognition, language translation, and expert recommendation systems, and have bright application prospects in the next decade. A 30 times energy efficiency target can save billions of kilowatt hours of electricity by 2025, and reduce the electricity required to complete a single calculation by 97% for the above system in the next 5 years.

AMD Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President Mark Papermaster said, "Making progress in processor energy efficiency is AMD's long-term priority in product design. Now we have set new goals for modern computing nodes that use high-performance CPUs and accelerators for AI training and high-performance computing deployment.". AMD focuses on these important areas and values the value proposition that leading companies should strengthen environmental management. AMD's 30-fold goal will significantly surpass the industry's energy efficiency performance in the past five years, with a growth rate of 150%

Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, believes that "computing is ubiquitous from end to core to cloud.", AMD has taken bold measures in processor energy efficiency. This is an accelerated computation aimed at AI and high-performance computing applications. Due to the gradual slowdown of the advantages brought by Moore's Law, future energy efficiency improvements will become more difficult. A 30 fold increase in energy efficiency within 5 years will be a remarkable technological achievement, showcasing AMD's technological strength and its emphasis on environmental sustainability

Improving energy efficiency to accelerate computing applications is part of AMD's new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in covering operations, supply chains, and products. For over 25 years, AMD has been publicly releasing the company's environmental management and effectiveness. Due to recent achievements in product energy efficiency, AMD has been selected for the Fortune 2020 "Changing the World" list to recognize the company's outstanding efforts in addressing social needs.