Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper AMD boosted the VRAM on its Instinct accelerators to 256 GB of HBM3e with the launch of its next-gen MI325X AI accelerators during its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday....

Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD's chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer's Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue in coming years, despite DeepSeek-inspired speculation that next-gen AI models may not need the same level of compute infrastructure used to produce such tools today....