Microsoft is reportedly helping AMD expand into AI chips
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AMD's AI-capable MI300 data center APU is set to arrive sometime later this year. | Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft has allegedly teamed up with AMD to help bolster the chipmaker's expansion into artificial intelligence processors. According to a report by Bloomberg, Microsoft is providing engineering resources to support AMD's developments as the two companies join forces to compete against Nvidia, which controls an estimated 80 percent market share in the AI processor market.
In turn, Bloomberg's sources also claim that AMD is helping Microsoft to develop its own in-house AI chips, codenamed Athena. Several hundred employees from Microsoft's silicon division are reportedly working on the project and the company has apparently already sunk around $2 billion into its development. Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw has, however, denied that...