AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
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AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
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Re: AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
#2MI455X is what AMD will sell to Anthropic (in the form of complete Helios racks, with EPYC servers full of GPUs) in the deal discussed in a couple of other HN threads (Reuters title: "AMD to sell Anthropic tens of billions in AI servers, invest up to $5 billion in startup"), i.e. Anthropic will not pay all in cash, but $5B will be paid by giving a share to AMD.
Re: AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
#3> Aiming for the Sun
They hope to avoid melting by doing the launch at night.
Re: AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
#4MI455X is what AMD will sell to Anthropic (in the form of complete Helios racks, with EPYC servers full of GPUs) in the deal discussed in a couple of other HN threads (Reuters title: "AMD to sell Anthropic tens of billions in AI servers, invest up to $5 billion in startup"), i.e. Anthropic will not pay all in cash, but $5B will be paid by giving a share to AMD.
so more circular cash strcuture; we're in Dot Com Boom 2: Electric GPUoogaloo
Re: AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
#5MI455X is what AMD will sell to Anthropic (in the form of complete Helios racks, with EPYC servers full of GPUs) in the deal discussed in a couple of other HN threads (Reuters title: "AMD to sell Anthropic tens of billions in AI servers, invest up to $5 billion in startup"), i.e. Anthropic will not pay all in cash, but $5B will be paid by giving a share to AMD.
so more circular cash strcuture; we're in Dot Com Boom 2: Electric GPUoogaloo
i really do wonder what the reason for all this circular financing? what are they trying to accomplish here?