AMD's Fortunes Are Improving

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AMD scored another big win today with the announcement that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected its next-next-gen EPYC Genoa processors with the Zen 4 architecture and Radeon GPUs to power the $600 million EL Capitan, a two-exaflop system that will be faster than the top 200 supercomputers in service today, combined.

AMD beat out both Intel and Nvidia for the contract, making this AMD's second win for an exascale system with the DOE (details on Frontier here). Meanwhile, Intel previously won the contract for the DOE's third (and only remaining) exascale supercomputer, Aurora.

Many analysts had contended that the DOE would offer the El Capitan contract to Nvidia, so today's announcement marks another loss for Nvidia, which currently isn't participating in any known exascale-class supercomputer project. That's particularly interesting because Nvidia GPUs currently dominate the Top 500 supercomputers and are the leading solution for GPU-accelerated compute in the data center.