A new federal initiative draws AMD into the center of America’s high-stakes computing race as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partners to build AI supercomputers for scientific research.
In a new press release, AMD says it is teaming up with the DOE to build two advanced systems, the Lux AI supercomputer and the Discovery supercomputer, marking a combined $1 billion public-private investment.
The supercomputers will be housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in an effort to cement national leadership in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
The projects, which tap AMD’s latest GPUs, CPUs and networking technologies, are designed to power sovereign AI development, expand frontier scientific research, and fortify US computational infrastructure.
“The Lux system will address the immediate needs to expand the DOE’s AI leadership and accelerate progress and innovation in the areas of AI, energy research, materials, medicine and advanced manufacturing…
Purpose‑built for AI and science, Discovery features a ‘Bandwidth Everywhere’ design that allows science and AI applications to run efficiently and deliver productive results.”
Following the news, CEO Lisa Su dismisses concerns that the AI market is saturated with competitors like Google developing plenty of chips.
“Actually, it’s exactly the opposite. I think what we’re seeing is that the addressable market for AI and inference is actually increasing. We’re seeing an acceleration of the use of AI, because as models get better, as enterprises are thinking about how they can deploy these models, there’s a lot more compute that’s necessary, and we’re seeing that across the board with the CapEx spending, as well as in our direct conversations with customers.”
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