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AMD Aims to Increase Energy Efficiency of Epyc CPUs and Instinct AI Accelerators 30x by 2025

posted by chromas on Thursday September 30 2021, @03:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-still-no-gpus dept.

takyon writes:

AMD wants to make its chips 30 times more energy-efficient by 2025

Today, [AMD] announced its most ambitious goal yet—to increase the energy efficiency of its Epyc CPUs and Instinct AI accelerators 30 times by 2025. This would help data centers and supercomputers achieve high performance with significant power savings over current solutions.

If it achieves this goal, the savings would add up to billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity saved in 2025 alone, meaning the power required to perform a single calculation in high-performance computing tasks will have decreased by 97 percent.

Increasing energy efficiency this much will involve a lot of engineering wizardry, including AMD's stacked 3D V-Cache chiplet technology. The company acknowledges the difficult task ahead of it, now that "energy-efficiency gains from process node advances are smaller and less frequent."

What does it mean?

In addition to compute node performance/Watt measurements, to make the goal particularly relevant to worldwide energy use, AMD uses segment-specific datacenter power utilization effectiveness (PUE) with equipment utilization taken into account. The energy consumption baseline uses the same industry energy per operation improvement rates as from 2015-2020, extrapolated to 2025. The measure of energy per operation improvement in each segment from 2020-2025 is weighted by the projected worldwide volumes multiplied by the Typical Energy Consumption (TEC) of each computing segment to arrive at a meaningful metric of actual energy usage improvement worldwide.

See the 25x20 Initiative from a few years ago.

See also: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to unveil new AI technologies and products at GTC Keynote in November

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 30 2021, @12:07PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday September 30 2021, @12:07PM (#1183086) Journal

    So is Intel, with Alder/Raptor/Meteor/Etcetera Lake *****mont efficiency cores.

    Also, the car is a computer:

    Intel pushes the European car business [eenewseurope.com]

    Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger is pushing car makers to more advanced process nodes with the promise of more chip making capacity in Europe.

    In a keynote speech to the IAA Munich car show this week, he sees semiconductors accounting for over 20 percent of the total bill of materials of a premium vehicle by 2030, up 500 percent on 2019 driven by the need for more data processing from cameras and Lidar sensors. Gelsinger predicted the total addressable market for automotive semiconductors will nearly double by the end of the decade to $115 billion, accounting for more than 11 percent of the entire silicon market and he wants Intel to be a significant provider of that silicon in Europe.

    [...] The company announced plans to establish committed foundry capacity at its fab in Ireland and launch the Intel Foundry Services Accelerator to help automotive chip designers transition to advanced nodes. For this, the company is launching a new design team and offering both custom and industry-standard intellectual property (IP) to support automotive customers.

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