It was on the agenda last month that Microsoft rolled up its sleeves to develop an artificial intelligence chip codenamed Athena. It turned out that Microsoft made this move not alone, but with AMD, Nvidia’s biggest rival.Microsoft and AMD collaboration
Today, Nvidia leads the way in artificial intelligence investments because it has the most efficient accelerators and has a very large customer portfolio in the market for a long time. It was mentioned that the ChatGPT robot uses tens of thousands of Nvidia accelerators. This causes Nvidia accelerators to suffer from shock problems.
Microsoft is building a chip design team of 1,000 engineers to free itself from this addiction. It was stated that Microsoft invested 2 billion dollars in the first place for Project Athena. The firm gives the project a high priority. The first prototypes of the chip are ready and have started testing. In the artificial intelligence competition, Microsoft intends to cut costs significantly.
It is stated that AMD will mainly provide financial support in this project and will help in the supply of chips. In particular, issues such as component procurement and separation of production lines are at AMD. Because Microsoft does not have enough experience in chip design and production. It will also be marketed to other companies if necessary. It is stated that the Athena chip will be released in 2024 at the earliest.
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