AMD Acquiring Another Company To Bolster Its AI Play

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Acquiring Another Company To Bolster Its AI Play

AMD just announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ZT Systems, a hyperscale solutions provider focused on AI...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Acquiring-ZT-Systems

[skeevy420]

Now if they could buy a company that made GUIs we'd be set.

[r1348]

ZT Systems is one of the biggest server OEMs out there, AMD likely wants to follow Nvidia's steps in providing full rack solutions for ML.

[scottishduck]

Good plan, investing into a market you’re failing to compete in, right as it begins its downturn

[schmidtbag]

AMD,
Just fix your damn drivers (which includes fully supporting devices older than last-gen), and re-instate ZLUDA. Those aren't too much to ask. In fact, proper driver support is the bare minimum. Your hardware is plenty good enough for AI, but nobody wants to buy it because of the abysmal state of your drivers and the looming threat of prematurely dropping support of devices. People are looking for an alternative to Nvidia, and you're not offering one.

[alberto-pv]

Good plan, investing into a market you’re failing to compete in, right as it begins its downturn

Given Lisa Su track, she probably don't know what she's doing /s

[edwaleni]

I remember when ZT was a white box clone PC vendor. Then they moved into PC based POS devices.

So I assume Equus will go next, they do the same thing as ZT.

[ezst036]

Aren't they going to need to mature their OpenCL stack further for this?

Maybe they just need to hire more driver developers?

[NateHubbard]

https://ztsystems.com/zt-systems-announces-acx200-solutions/

Cool, now AMD can sell Nvidia parts.

[oleid]

AMD,
Just fix your damn drivers (which includes fully supporting devices older than last-gen),

You mean GPU drivers? As in amdgpu?
What does this have to do with AI stuff?
Or what drivers are you taking about?