AMD plans to step up its AI game with a brand-new lineup, the Instinct MI350 series, which will offer customers significant performance upgrades.
AMD Instinct MI350 AI Lineup To Bring In New Performance Levels, Competing With NVIDIA's Blackwell
Team Red hasn't been very active in releasing new AI hardware, at least on a pace similar to NVIDIA, given that AMD's core focus has been building up a software ecosystem that rivals CUDA to some extent. AMD currently operates on a yearly product roadmap, and the last time we saw a release was the Instinct MI325X AI accelerator, which was the firm's response to NVIDIA's Blackwell. At the ISC25 keynote, AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster revealed that the next-gen Instinct MI350 AI lineup is said to launch this week, on Thursday, offering up to a 35x improvement in inferencing capabilities and much more.
As part of #ISC25 opening keynote, Mark Papermaster says @AMD will launch Instinct MI350 GPU series on Thursday, claiming achievement of goal to reach 30x improvement in energy efficiency by 2025. pic.twitter.com/mbXAlCgGbq
— Addison Snell (@addisonsnell) June 10, 2025
While AMD didn't disclose specifics about the MI350 AI accelerator, we know how it could pan out. The GPU is said to feature a 3nm process node, offer up to 288 GB HBM3E memory, and be a direct competitor to NVIDIA's Blackwell lineup. To top it all off, the MI350 is said to feature AMD's next-gen "CDNA 4" architecture, which will show us how far AMD has come along in terms of generational gaps between its AI architectures, likely giving us a better rundown on the future of AMD's plans.
The MI350 would likely position itself somewhere between Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra, and given how far ROCm has evolved, AMD will definitely see adoption by partners. AMD's CTO also discussed how the firm has managed to scale up perf/watt figures with their AI offerings, revealing that with the next-gen MI355X AI accelerator, they expect up to a 30x increase in efficiency figures, successfully delivering on expectations and being ahead of its counterparts. AMD says that architectural and package innovation has led them to this stage, and the efficiency figures are expected to see an uptrend in the future.
It would be interesting to see how the industry reacts to the MI350 AI accelerator, since AMD has shown huge anticipation of this release in the past. This would likely tell us where the company is heading in the AI hardware segment as well.
About the author: Muhammad Zuhair is a hardware and technology reporter for Wccftech, specializing in the semiconductor industry and the complex interplay between technology, manufacturing, and geopolitics. His coverage focuses on the corporate strategies and technological roadmaps of industry giants like TSMC, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Intel. Zuhair's expertise lies in deconstructing complex topics such as fabrication nodes (e.g., 2nm process), the economic impact of policies like the CHIPS Act, and the strategic development of AI infrastructure from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
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