# AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute

- Show: [Oxide and Friends](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends)
- Published: 2023-12-12
- Length: 1h 14m
- Episode: 34
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute
- Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/b64ab036

## Summary

George Cozma of Chips and Cheese and Jordan Cozma of Storage Review join Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal of Oxide Computer Company to analyze AMD's MI300 series, particularly the MI300A APU. The group compares AMD's unified memory architecture and open-source ROCm software stack against NVIDIA's Grace Hopper and CUDA ecosystem, discussing the implications for accelerated compute, data center power density, and the future of AI hardware.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute#t=0) Introduction and AMD MI300 Overview
- [6:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute#t=365) AMD's Strategic Position and Software Challenges
- [16:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute#t=975) MI300A Architecture vs. NVIDIA Grace Hopper
- [24:42](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute#t=1482) Thermal Management and Liquid Cooling Needs
- [32:08](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute#t=1928) AI Adoption, Economics, and On-Premise Deployment
- [1:05:48](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends/2023-12-12-amds-mi300-and-the-future-of-accelerated-compute#t=3948) Future of Compute and Predictions

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- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
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## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- AMD (company)
- MI300 (product)
- MI300A (product)
- NVIDIA (company)
- Grace Hopper (product)
- CUDA (other)
- ROCm (other)
- Oxide Computer Company (company)
- Chips and Cheese (company)
- Storage Review (company)

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