AMD News Latest AMD news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a US semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. AMD designs and sells x86 CPUs (Ryzen and EPYC), GPUs (Radeon and Instinct), adaptive SoCs and AI accelerators that power consumer PCs, workstations, gaming, e...
AMD Joins The $1 Trillion Club As Data-Center Revenue Doubles To $6.7B — Sep 23, 2026 — AMD crossed $1 trillion in market cap for the first time on September 21, 2026, driven by data-center revenue that more than doubled to $6.7B on AI-wo...Micron Ships World's First 512GB DDR5 Server Module With TSV Stacking — Sep 20, 2026 — Micron demonstrates a 512GB DDR5 RDIMM running at 9,200 MT/s, enabling 12TB per two-socket server with 60% less power than four 128GB sticks.Cohere's Model Vault Now Encrypts AI Inference So Even Cohere Can't See It — Sep 17, 2026 — Cohere adds confidential computing to Model Vault, sealing enterprise AI inference inside NVIDIA-Intel-AMD trusted execution enclaves so neither Coher...Ayar Labs Adds $150M To Series E, Pushes Photonic Chiplet Round To $650M — Sep 11, 2026 — Ayar Labs extended its Series E to $650M with a fresh $150M cheque, and a $225M secondary lifts the co-packaged-optics startup past $5B as Nvidia, AMD...ASUS Widens AI Infrastructure Push From Cloud To Industrial Edge — Sep 6, 2026 — At ASUS AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, ASUS unveiled Intel Xeon 6 and AMD EPYC 9006 servers alongside a new rugged Industrial Edge Server, in partnership with...AMD Threadripper Halo Station Debuts at IFA 2026: 576GB HBM3e for Local AI — Sep 5, 2026 — AMD unveiled the Threadripper Halo Station at IFA 2026: a 96-core Threadripper PRO 9995WX paired with up to four Instinct MI350P accelerators, 576GB H...AMD Opens IFA 2026 With 'Era Of Personal AI' Keynote And Ryzen AI Max Pro 400 Reveal — Sep 4, 2026 — AMD's Jack Huynh opened IFA 2026 in Berlin with 'The Era of Personal AI,' positioning Ryzen AI Max Pro 400 and FSR Diamond as on-device answers to NVI...AMD Ventures And Marathon Back Wafer With $40M Series A For AI Inference Silicon — Sep 3, 2026 — San Francisco startup Wafer raised a $40M Series A led by Marathon and Chemistry, with AMD Ventures, Wing, Y Combinator and Fifty Years joining to fun...Waymo Reveals Custom 5nm ASIC And Seven-Supplier Stack Behind Its Ojai Robotaxi — Aug 25, 2026 — Alphabet's Waymo has opened up the boot of its robotaxi, publishing the architecture of its onboard computer, a purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC that pu...TSMC's 1.6nm A16 Node Slated For Q4 2026 Mass Production, Roadmap Holds — Aug 24, 2026 — TSMC confirmed its 1.6nm-class A16 process is on track for high-volume manufacturing in the fourth quarter of 2026, targeting datacenter AI accelerato...SIA Names AUVSI Chief Michael Robbins As New President And CEO — Aug 22, 2026 — The Semiconductor Industry Association tapped AUVSI president and CEO Michael Robbins to succeed John Neuffer as its next leader, effective October 1,...AMD Signs Oxford BOLD Lab MOU, Pledges $6.7M Compute For UK Frontier AI — Aug 21, 2026 — AMD will supply up to £5 million (about $6.7M) in compute over 18 months to the University of Oxford-led British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab...Xen Project Launches Safety Committee To Certify Hypervisor For Robots And Cars — Aug 18, 2026 — The Xen Project launched a Safety Committee anchored by AMD, EPAM and Renesas to develop shared engineering artifacts for IEC 61508 certification of i...Velaura AI Bags $110M Series A At $1B+ For Ultra-Low-Power AI Chips — Aug 18, 2026 — Velaura AI closed a $110M Series A at $1B+ led by Seligman Ventures to scale its Titan Core silicon IP delivering 2-4x better performance per watt for...Cerebras Q2 Cloud Revenue Jumps 281% As OpenAI Deal Ramps — Aug 17, 2026 — Cerebras Systems posted 74% revenue growth and a raised $890M full-year outlook as OpenAI-driven inference nearly quadruples the AI chipmaker's cloud...AMD Buys Taalas To Etch AI Models Directly Into Silicon — Aug 7, 2026 — AMD agreed to acquire Toronto's Taalas, a startup that hardwires AI model weights directly into CMOS logic, to bolster its Instinct-powered inference...Avnet And Weston Robot Launch Edge-AI Quadruped For Industrial Inspection — Aug 6, 2026 — Avnet and Weston Robot unveiled a joint autonomous inspection platform that puts an AMD Ryzen AI-powered 50 TOPS Avnet compute backpack on a Weston-in...AMD Launches Ryzen AI Embedded X100 and Kria AI SoM to Challenge Nvidia in Robotics — Aug 1, 2026 — AMD is bringing Zen 5, RDNA 3.5 and 50-TOPS NPUs to the robotics edge with the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 family and a new Kria AI SoM that scales up to 1...Core Scientific And AMD Ink 2.5 GW AI Infrastructure Pact Worth Up To $14B — Jul 30, 2026 — Core Scientific and AMD announce a partnership giving AMD access to up to 2.5 GW of U.S. data-center capacity — 529 MW now across five sites, backed b...AMD And Cerebras Team Up On Disaggregated AI Inference With Helios And WSE — Jul 26, 2026 — AMD and Cerebras Systems unveiled a joint disaggregated inference platform at Advancing AI 2026, pairing AMD Helios rackscale GPU systems with the Cer...