
Highlights so far from this event include:
- AMD EPYC CPUs will be coming online with Amazon AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) starting today for the R5a, M5a, and T3a instance types.
- AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 is the first 7nm Vega GPU.
- The initial preview of the AMD Rome next-gen 7nm EPYC CPU.
- Zen 2 is sampling today while it's on track for being released still in 2019.
- 7nm slated to deliver 2x density improvement, 0.5x power, and greater than 1.25x the performance.
- Zen 3 7nm++ is "on track".
- Zen 2 will have better floating point performance.
- Hardware-enhanced Spectre mitigation for Zen 2 along with other security improvements.
- Zen 2 is using a "revolutionary" chiplet design.
- Zen 4 is in design stages already.
- The Radeon Instinct MI60 (Vega 20) supports hardware virtualization, 2x more density, 50% lower power, and greater than 1.25x higher performance. This GPU offers end-to-end ECC memory protection, and machine learning instructions for training and inference.
- The MI60 with its 32GB HBM2 memory can achieve 1TB/s of memory bandwidth.
- The MI60 supports full PCI Express 4.0 with 64GB/s bi-directional bandwidth and does support Infinity Fabric Links at 100GB/s per link between the EPYC CPU and GPU.
- The ROCm 2.0 compute stack is coming for the MI60. This is the latest open-source Radeon Compute stack for machine learning and more.
- "We are committed to open-source and the open-source community."
- ROCm 2.0 will be out before the end of 2018.
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