After one week of running local AI on AMD's Strix Halo hardware in mid-August 2026, the user reports that the hardware is fine but the software stack is far from ready, with crashes and performance is…
PantheonGPU, a new GPU health-check tool, runs 45+ targeted tests on NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm hardware to detect stability issues and configuration bottlenecks that telemetry tools miss. The tool stre…
PantheonGPU 1.0.14, a GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking tool, is now available as a Debian package and portable bundle for Linux. The tool tests GPU compute, memory, cache, interconnect,…
AMD reported a 4x improvement in AI energy efficiency from 2024 to mid-2026, exceeding its projected 3x target, and remains on track for its 20x rack-scale goal by 2030. The company's 20x30 initiative…
The KV cache has no standard ABI, with vLLM's FlashAttention backend alone reporting its cache shape as a four-dimensional tensor that varies by backend, attention variant, and model family, complicat…
A user reports that ComfyUI on an AMD RX 9070XT with ROCm and PyTorch remains the best combination, and describes creating a bash build script to generate Docker images with specified versions of ROCm…
AMD's ROCm blog published a walkthrough for running verl's asynchronous reinforcement learning examples on AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, covering GRPO on Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct with the Geometry3k dataset…
GEEKOM, a leading innovator in high-performance Mini PCs, has deployed DeepSeek V4 Flash across four GEEKOM A9 Mega systems, creating a distributed AI cluster that connects via USB4 instead of a data-…
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo may outperform NVIDIA's DGX Spark for local AI development, according to a hardware comparison. The Ryzen AI Halo offers better power efficiency and thermal performance, while the …
AMD and PyTorch upstreamed FP8 training optimizations for AMD Instinct GPUs into TorchAO and TorchTitan, delivering a 13.4% throughput gain over BF16 on Llama3-8B dense models and recovering 89% of FP…
A developer's third installment in a GPU optimization series details implementing distributed training for large language models using CUDA and ROCm, covering All-Reduce, Ring-AllReduce, and ZeRO shar…
A developer's analysis of community reports on running MiniMax H3 locally reveals that GPU model alone is insufficient to predict performance, with VRAM requirements varying widely based on resolution…
AMD announced a definitive agreement on August 6, 2026, to acquire Toronto-based AI-chip startup Taalas, adding model-specific inference silicon to its AI roadmap; financial terms were not disclosed. …
A developer has published a practical guide for setting up a local AI troubleshooting and support environment on macOS and Windows using Open WebUI, Ollama, and Hugging Face. The recommended architect…
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year over year, with data center revenue reaching $6.7 billion, up 107%, as CEO Lisa Su said open-source contributions to its ROCm s…
AMD executives say the chip company's open-source strategy gives it an edge over Nvidia in the AI chip race, with CEO Lisa Su noting that open-source contributions to its ROCm software have increased …
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forecast third-quarter revenue of roughly $13 billion, surpassing analyst expectations of $12.52 billion, driven by surging demand for its AI data-center chips. The compan…
A single AMD MI300X GPU with 192 GB of HBM3 now serves DeepSeek's 284B-parameter DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 checkpoint in mixed FP4+FP8 format, requiring nine patch overlays against a vLLM ROCm nightly pl…
AMD unveiled the Instinct MI455X accelerator at its Advancing AI 2026 event, a flagship GPU with 320 billion transistors, 432GB of HBM4 memory, and up to 40 petaflops of FP4 AI compute, designed to ch…
At the AMD Advancing AI event, analysts from theCUBE Research highlighted AMD's transformation into a full-stack AI infrastructure company, with Dave Vellante noting AMD's $60 billion in M&A, includin…