News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52

 

A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news stories of the year. Here’s a fast (7:58) review of recent events:

– AMD’s OpenAI deal stunner

– Intel’s Clearwater Forest 2nm data center CPU manufactured at their new Fab 52 (your author at the site in photo), which may be approaching TSMC fab parity

– SC25 conference next month in St. Louis looks like another big one

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