{"id":918,"date":"2026-03-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/24\/this-innovative-chip-series-continues-to-drive-amds-transformation-fastco\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:00","slug":"this-innovative-chip-series-continues-to-drive-amds-transformation-fastco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/24\/this-innovative-chip-series-continues-to-drive-amds-transformation-fastco\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91502012\/amd-most-innovative-companies-2026?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss\">This innovative chip series continues to drive AMD\u2019s transformation (FastCo)<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expected to launch later this year, AMD\u2019s MI450 chip will power increased performance and scale up to vast systems.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, chipmaker AMD was deep in debt and an afterthought in the PC business, with some analysts fearing bankruptcy. After revitalizing its PC business with its Ryzen chips and bringing a much-needed alternative to Intel, the company is now injecting competition into the booming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/section\/artificial-intelligence\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"AI\">AI<\/a> data center sector. The chipmaker hopes to compete with rival Nvidia by lowering costs and creating a more open ecosystem. To that end, AMD has been pivoting from being mainly a chip supplier to providing end-to-end AI architecture and systems.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91502012\/amd-most-innovative-companies-2026?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expected to launch later this year, AMD\u2019s MI450 chip will power increased performance and scale up to vast systems.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, chipmaker AMD was deep in debt and an afterthought in the PC business, with some analysts fearing bankruptcy. After revitalizing its PC business with its Ryzen chips and bringing a much-needed alternative to Intel, the company is now injecting competition into the booming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/section\/artificial-intelligence\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"AI\">AI<\/a> data center sector. The chipmaker hopes to compete with rival Nvidia by lowering costs and creating a more open ecosystem. To that end, AMD has been pivoting from being mainly a chip supplier to providing end-to-end AI architecture and systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","tag-published","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}