AMD CEO: AI is maturing, the chip industry cannot only focus on GPUs

Zhitong
2024.09.23 08:07

AMD CEO Lisa Su said, "Currently, GPUs are the preferred architecture for large language models because GPUs are very efficient in parallel processing, but they lack programmability," Su said. "Will it still be the preferred architecture in five years? I think the situation will change." Su expects that GPUs will not lose their dominance in five or seven years, but new forces outside of GPUs will emerge. Su said that future AI models will use a combination of different types of chips, including the dominant GPUs today and more specialized chips that are still under development, to achieve various functions