Oracle Exec: AMD Gaining Favor in Nvidia-Dominated Market for AI Chips

Despite Nvidia’s booming growth in selling data center chips for artificial intelligence, some customers developing AI are turning to chips from smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices, said Karan Batta, a senior executive in Oracle’s cloud business. Oracle rents out chips from both companies.

“What we’re finding now is customers are not necessarily tied to any one particular vendor for inferencing,” Batta said. Inference computing refers to AI that has already been developed and is powering applications.

“There’s a lot of effort being put into AMD, and [the company is] doing a good job” at improving its chips’ performance, he said.