AMD CEO Offers Help to AI Startup, But Supporting Consumer GPUs in Enterprise Could Backfire
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AMD CEO Lisa Su offered to help AI startup tinybox fix bugs with Radeon GPUs, but this could backfire as she seemingly supports using consumer GPUs in enterprise servers
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Tinybox's $15,000 AI server uses AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards, delivering 37% of Nvidia H100 performance
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Tinybox expressed frustration with bugs in AMD's AI acceleration toolkit, even tweeting for AMD to open source firmware so tinybox could fix issues itself
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If AMD open sources firmware, tinybox said it would "fix their LLVM spilling bug and write a fuzzer for HSA"
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Supporting use of consumer GPUs in enterprise could draw backlash for Su, as tinybox avoids "pro GPUs" expecting enterprise-level support