On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Forrest Norrod, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Business Unit at AMD for a conversation on open data center infrastructure ecosystem for AI and AI hardware.

Their discussion covers:

• What AMD’s customers are excited about as this AI inflection point continues to grow, around AMD and their AI vision 

• AMD’s emphasis on the need for an open AI ecosystem (software, hardware) and how customers benefit from open ecosystems 

• The strategy behind combining CPUs, GPUs and Memory into a single package for AI and HPC workloads 

• The behind-the-scenes on AMD’s work on the exascale class supercomputers powered by AMD

• Where AI data centers may go in the future and the “next big thing”