As a three-way competition with Intel intensifies, Nvidia and AMD each introduced their next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) chips independently in Taiwan.
AMD unveiled new AI processors on Monday to maintain its position as a market leader despite competition.
“AI is our number one priority and we’re at the beginning of an incredibly exciting time for the industry as AI transforms virtually every business, improves our quality of life, and reshapes every part of the computing market,” chair and CEO Lisa Su said during the Computex tech conference in Taipei.
Nvidia’s (NVDA) CEO, Jensen Huang, also announced on Sunday that the company will launch Rubin, its most sophisticated AI chip platform, in 2026.
The Blackwell platform, which provides chips for data centres and was first revealed in March, will be replaced by the Rubin platform. At the time, Nvidia referred to it as the “world’s most powerful chip.”
In an address at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Huang revealed that the Rubin will have new graphics processing units (GPUs), a new central processing unit (CPU) named Vera, and cutting-edge networking processors.
Huang addressed the crowd in front of the start of Computex, an annual tech trade exhibition held in Taiwan, “We’re at the cusp of a major shift in computing today.” “AI and accelerated computing together are going to change the future.”
The Ryzen AI 300 series which was unveiled by Su as the next generation of AI laptops may face direct competition from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X and Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake processors.
In addition, Su unveiled the new desktop Ryzen 9000 series, dubbed “the world’s fastest consumer PC processors” for video production and gaming.
In July, both lines are anticipated to debut. This occurred less than two months after AMD unveiled the Ryzen Pro 8000 for desktop computers and the Ryzen Pro 8040 for laptops, two new processors capable of handling AI workloads, in April.
We earlier reported that a few weeks after the US announced cancelling some licences that allow companies to send products, including chips to Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, in its latest efforts to curb China’s tech power, Nvidia, has reportedly dropped the price of its most advanced AI processors.
