AMD says it has a major advantage in the AI chip race against Nvidia: being more open. AMD has long promoted this strategy through its open-source ROCm software, used to program AI chips. Since ROCm is available as open source, it’s free for anyone to use, download, or modify. On the company’s earnings call on
Stephen Huang had spent decades building chips in Silicon Valley when the launch of ChatGPT convinced him that the market was ready for the AI chip company he had long considered building. By then, Huang had worked on MediaTek GPUs, Apple’s. Face ID technology and a team of artificial intelligence chips from Amazon. When ChatGPT