AMD announced it will significantly expand its data center and AI systems through strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Google.

The chipmaker revealed plans to accelerate the development of its Instinct MI300 GPUs and EPYC processors through collaborations with leading cloud providers. The goal is to create more powerful data center products for AI workloads.

"AI is the largest growth opportunity for AMD," said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, data center and embedded systems group. "Our data center and AI product roadmap, with the upcoming introduction of MI300 and future generations, will integrate CPUs and GPUs for a unified data center platform that addresses the HPC and AI market."

Microsoft and Google will contribute software optimization expertise to AMD's data center product development. The partnerships aim to enhance performance for AI workloads running on Azure and Google Cloud.

"We're excited about the opportunity to collaborate with AMD on accelerating AI innovation in the cloud," said Eric Boyd, corporate vice president, AI platform development, Microsoft. "Integrating AMD's technologies into our cloud platforms will enable businesses to speed up AI adoption and drive breakthroughs."

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, added: "By working together with AMD, we can further optimize the Google Cloud infrastructure for performance, security, and scalability. This collaboration will help enterprises build transformative AI solutions."

Through these partnerships, AMD aims to become a leading provider of AI data center systems. The chipmaker believes its unified CPU-GPU approach will offer superior performance and efficiency compared to competitors.

"AMD is well-positioned to lead the market transition to hybrid HPC and AI systems," stated Norrod. "Our strategy is to deliver leadership performance and power efficiency for AI, HPC, and cloud computing through our unified CPU-GPU roadmap."