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AMD keeps chipping away at Intel’s x86 market share as overall sales take a hit
By now it’s no secret the hardware industry has been struggling in recent months, mostly due to economic uncertainty and low demand for consumer electronics. People in need of a phone or PC upgrade are increasingly turning to refurbished and second-hand options, while new products gather dust on store shelves….
AMD CEO Lisa Su says Moore’s Law isn’t dead, but has slowed down
AMD planning to replace AGESA firmware with open source alternative openSIL
AGESA, or AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture, has been performing platform initialization procedures on AMD UEFI-based motherboards since the first generation of Zen CPUs. AGESA “wakes up” the CPU cores, chipset, memory and other hardware subsystems, and is an essential part of the UEFI firmware installed on AMD-compatible motherboards.
AMD Will Replace AGESA With Open Source Initialization Library ‘openSIL’
Raj Kapoor, AMD Fellow and AMD’s Chief Firmware Architect, in fact began the AMD openSIL presentation by talking about the challenges they’ve had with AGESA in adapting it to Coreboot for Chromebook purposes with Ryzen SoCs… With AMD openSIL not expected to be production ready until around 2026, this puts it roughly inline for an AMD Zen 6 or Zen 7 introduction. The proof of concept code for AMD Genoa is expected to come soon…
The presentation also noted that beyond AMD openSIL code being open-source, the openSIL specification will also be open. AMD “invites every silicon vendor” to participate in this open-source system firmware endeavor.
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The Ratings Game: AMD stock ends week higher as post-earnings loss erased by Microsoft AI hopes
Microsoft reportedly rallies behind AMD to develop chips for AI workloads
Microsoft and AMD could be partnering on AI chips
Earlier this week, we learned that Microsoft might be interested in following the Apple recipe of developing custom silicon for its ambitions. However, this shouldn’t surprise anyone watching the tech industry, as pretty much all tech giants are working on their own chips. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Baidu, and others are…
Hope you like GPUs with 8GB because both AMD and Nvidia have new cards ready to go
Report: Microsoft is Partnering with AMD on Athena AI Chipset
Microsoft’s secretive hardware efforts also come amid a period of Big Tech layoffs. But the firm’s new Microsoft Silicon business, led by former Intel executive Rani Borkar, is growing and now has almost 1,000 employees, several hundred of which are working on Athena. The software giant has invested about $2 billion on this effort so far, Bloomberg says. (And that’s above the $11 billion it’s invested in ChatGPT maker OpenAI.) Bloomberg also says that Microsoft intends to keep partnering with Nvidia too, and that it will continue buying Nvidia chipsets as needed.
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