Artificial Intelligence. AI is supercharging everything – our lives, devices, computers, servers, apps, products and services in profound ways, with a multitude of competitive AI engines, ever more advanced hardware, apps and more all battling it out for relevance and supremacy – three great videos interviews are below, plus links and keynote replays of AMD’s latest announcements – please read on and watch!
With AMD a massive player in the still relatively nascent but never more ultramodern hardware and software platforms for the AI industry and AI-enhanced current reality, the way AMD’s and everyone’s AI will transform and evolve in 2024 will make 2023 seem tame in comparison!
A brief trip down AI’s memory lane is below, but let’s start with my first video interview let’s start with AMD’s John Anguiano talking desktop-class AMD AI processors + more at CES 2024!
We spoke about the new Ryzen desktop-classes 8000G processor, its compatibility with the AM5 socket and upgradability, graphics innovations this chip offers, how OEMs are creating 8000G-powered systems, the extension of the Developer AI content AMD launched in December, and anything else we need to know and John’s message to viewers and readers for the future!
Here’s the video about AMD’s new desktop processor and its impressive graphics prowess – two more top CES 2024 interviews below!
Now let’s take a quick trip down memory lane to look at Gen AI’s recent history, starting with November 30, 2022, when ChatGPT (and GPT 3.5) arrived with a bang, heralding the start of the modern AI revolution we now take for granted, consuming all of 2023 with an ongoing AI frenzy, with most of us still not using AI to its maximum potential – although this will certainly change massive this year.
March 2023 saw GPT-4 arrive with much more impressive performance and accuracy than GPT-4, then was upgraded again four short months ago in October 2023 to an even faster GPT-4 Turbo model!
Able to accept even better multimodal inputs, including video, image creation and text to speech and more, ensuring OpenAI’s ChatGPT rules the roost in AI performance, globally, for now.
But it’s all changing yet again, with tons of new hardware from multiple players including AMD, Qualcomm, Intel and others.
In the next two to three months in Q2 2024, GPT-5 is expected to arrive and be the most impressive system yet, with Google also set to soon release its “Bard Ultra” AI engine that is expected to give GPT-5 a run for its money with both OpenAI and Google vying for bragging rights on whose AI system is fastest and best – and no doubt Huggingface, Claude, Meta, Apple and every other company working on AI tech has massive developments in store for 2024, too.
Despite decades of work in AI, we need only go back to mid 2023 when AMD held its “Advancing the Data Center and AI”, which you can see a full video replay in my article at TechAdvice.Life here.
We learned AMD launched more powerful chips in several areas: in servers, in desktop and laptop computers, and they are absolutely state-of-the art, coming with major improvements in performance and power efficient compared with previous models.
I then spoke with Senior AMD Director for commercial client and workstation computing, Matthew Unangst, in an early October video interview on AMD’s AI-enhanced 7040-series x86 processors and AI ambitions,.
AMD then held its Advancing AI event in San Jose in December 2023, where the 8040 next-gen AI-powered x86 processor was unveiled, alongside Ryzen AI 1.0 software to deploy models on Ryzen AI PCs alongside even more AI advances including the Nvidia H100-beating AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator.
More information on every aspect of AMD’s AI-enhanced technologies from December, with the full replay of the keynote and more at my article here.
Then, at three weeks ago at CES 2024, AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su explained this year’s steps in AMD’s AI transformation, and showing how AMD powering the end-to-end infrastructure that will define the AI era, from cloud installations to enterprise clusters, AI-enabled intelligent embedded devices and PCs, and more.
Lisa showcased AMD’s advances in desktop processors enhanced with AI engines, AI for advanced gaming, graphics, and AMD’s generational leap in performance with Advanced AI engines and elevated in-vehicle experiences – it’s well worth watching the full, must-see CES 2024 keynote here.
AMD also previewed that future, even more powerful Ryzen 8050 CPUs are due later this year, dubbed “Strix Point”, with even more advanced Ryzen AI and XDNA 2 NPU more than 3x generative AI performance than the newly release 8040 CPU, and not only is the roadmap strong, but the availability of all this new tech never more widely available for consumers and businesses that right now.
AMD also this week launched the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT, a high-performance, feature-rich graphics card designed to power demanding games and content creation applications now and in the future.
Full details are here,, but in short, it features a whopping 16GB of VRAM, high-performance AMD RDNA 3 compute units, advanced AI technology, and dedicated raytracing accelerators, enabling this graphics card to offer smooth, fast and visually stunning gaming and raytracing experiences at 1080p, and unleashes users’ creativity in next-gen AI and content creation workloads!
So, with all of that recapped and easily tp experience at the links above, I want to present to you two more CES 2024 AMD executive interviews, I conducted, with plenty more information, so please watch, and read on!
- AMD ‘s Jason Banta, Corporate VP and GM of OEM Client, explains where AI PCs are headed at CES 2024
Jason gave us a snapshot of the strength of AMD’s OEM partnerships, which have never been stronger, nor more evolutionary, We looked at AMD’s partnership with Microsoft as it infuses AI into every aspect of Windows, Jason’s predictions for AI through the end of 2024 and the rest of the decade, and Jason’s final message to the viewers and readers!
- Finally, it was great to meet Matthew Unangst in person, who I had interviewed over Zoom in early October, and speak with him for an update, too!
In this video interview, also conducted at CES 2024, I spoke with Matthew Unangst, Sr Dir of Commercial Client and Workstation for AMD, with Matthew giving us an update on AMD’s 2024 plans for AI PCs.
We briefly looked at new systems featuring 8040 processors, with 2024 seeing AMD focused on the deployment of scaling its AI technologies, working closely with the developer community, the Windows AI Copilot key, the huge AI PC upgrade cycle refresh, AI applications and use cases, AI on the PC, cloud and everywhere, and the melding off the hardware and applications.
We looked at the specific AI improvements Ryzen 8040 brings over the 7040 – a 60% increased in AI capability, 10 to 16 TOPS and 39 TOPS overall of AI capability, with lots of partner activity proceeding strongly. Over 50 PCs were delivered with the 7040 by the end of 2023, with the 8040 in 2024 even more widely available.
Enteprise customers in 2024 will really take advantage of AI PC deployment, it’s the year where the hardware, software and applications ecosystem really comes together a hugely exciting year, with new AI capabilities arriving almost every week – with Generative AI growing tremendously!
