Check out the latest innovations that AMD is presenting at OFC 2024 

Back in April of 2023 we announced the AMD Alveo™ MA35D media accelerator to much fanfare, if you’re not yet up to speed on that, or you just want to relive the excitement, you can find the announcement here. After showcasing our newest accelerator at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show, we were able to realize the culmination of years of learnings, planning, and good old-fashioned hard work in launching the industry’s first 5nm ASIC-based media accelerator, purpose-built for interactive streaming at scale. With that we are pleased to announce the expansion of the Alveo Media Acceleration portfolio alongside the AMD Alveo™ U30. With the launch and early-access program now behind us, it’s time to really get started.

AMD Xilinx Video SDK 3.0 brings additional enhancements to the already feature-rich Video SDK 2.0. It is now available to Alveo™ U30 media accelerator card users through  on-premises setups (support by AWS’s Amazon EC2 VT1 instances coming soon). With Video SDK 3.0 and a multimedia framework/toolkit (such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, and XMA), users can continue to cost-effectively scale their live video transcoding with even greater ease.

Check out some of the key speakers and attendees of Xilinx Adapt 2021. 

Acquiring Solarflare brings Xilinx both market-leading technology and additional expertise in networking hardware, software, firmware and drivers. 

Victor Peng discusses how leading companies are benefiting from the AWS and Xilinx technology partnership.

AMD and Xilinx announce a new world record for AI Inference

The most critical AI video analytics applications are the ones that protect human health, preserve human life, and secure property, and complex applications like that need deterministic low latency performance. Not only that, but their complexity can be extremely hardware intensive, which can challenge organizational budgets.

Financial trading instructions have gone through significant changes over the past two decades, with the evolution of electronic trading, algorithms, smart order routers, the rise of HFT, and ever more complex strategies in search of alpha. 

Innovation is recognized when it disrupts a market. Network Interface Cards (NICs) have existed since the 1980s, and around the turn of the century, various companies began innovating in this area. Their initial focus was on High-Performance Computing (HPC). While businesses ran on Ethernet, the most powerful HPC clusters in the world were created using Myrinet or Infiniband. The NICs for these networks were architected to bypass the operating system (OS) kernel and communicate directly with HPC applications delivering substantially greater performance. To make this happen, these NICs applied extensive computational resources at the edge of the network, enabling them to offload common communications tasks from the host CPU.