AMD investe 2 miliardi di sterline nel Regno Unito

<p>At London Tech Week this morning, AMD chair and CEO Dr Lisa Su (pictured) outlined a series of investments worth £2bn designed to accelerate the UK’s AI ecosystem and support the computing resource that underpins scientific discovery and public-sector innovation.</p><p>The initiatives align with the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan and AI Hardware Strategy, supporting broader national priorities to build world-class AI infrastructure, develop technical talent and accelerate AI adoption.</p><p>“The United Kingdom has the talent, research excellence and ambition to help lead the next era of AI,” said Su. “AMD is proud to deepen our commitment to the UK and work with partners across government, academia and industry to expand access to the compute infrastructure needed to advance sovereign AI, accelerate discovery and drive long-term economic growth.”</p><p>Building on its recently announced work with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and JPMorganChase, AMD also announced a collaboration with Imperial College London to advance computational science and supporting research that relies on large-scale computing resources, including healthcare innovation and climate modelling.</p><p>AMD and Imperial also intend to explore opportunities to optimise AI models, scientific workflows and data-intensive applications on AMD compute platforms and AMD ROCm open software.</p><p>Additionally, AMD is collaborating with Oriole Networks in support of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency Scaling Inference Lab, a national initiative designed to address critical AI infrastructure bottlenecks.</p><p>The effort combines Oriole’s PRISM photonic networking architecture with AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC processors to evaluate new approaches for scaling inference workloads while improving performance and energy efficiency and reducing latency.</p><p>The initiative supports what is expected to be the world’s first large-scale AI system powered by a pure photonic network, an important step toward infrastructure technologies that can support future generations of AI systems in the UK.</p><p>AMD and Dell Technologies are working with the University of Cambridge on its expanding national AI infrastructure footprint, including the new Zenith AI supercomputer and the Sunrise fusion AI system developed in collaboration with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).</p><p>Zenith is a significant new UK AI-for-science platform, funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation, designed and operated by the University of Cambridge, and built with AMD and Dell technology.</p><p>Sunrise is a second AI supercomputer powered by AMD and Dell being built now, funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, owned by UKAEA, and operated by the University of Cambridge. Sunrise is part of a long standing UKAEA-University of Cambridge partnership and dedicated to the fusion mission.</p><p>Together, these systems support a broad range of AI-for-science applications including healthcare research, climate modelling, materials science, engineering simulation, fusion research and scientific AI model development.</p>