French company Scaleway plans an AI supercomputer in Sweden powered by AMD chips, giving Europe another choice besides Nvidia. Here is why that matters.
Scaleway Is Building a Giant AI Computer in Sweden With AMD Chips
Imagine one pizza shop owning almost every oven in town. If you wanted pizza, you would have to use that shop. A new project in Europe is trying to add another oven to the neighborhood, but for artificial intelligence (AI).
What Is Happening?
According to Reuters, French cloud company Scaleway announced on Tuesday that it will build an AI supercomputer in Sweden. A supercomputer is a very powerful computer, or a group of computers working together, that can handle huge jobs. Scaleway will use AMD Instinct MI355X chips, and this is its first supercomputer outside France.
Why Does It Matter That It Is AMD?
Most AI computers use chips from Nvidia. TechStartups explains that Nvidia is strong partly because many programmers already know its software, called CUDA. AMD has its own software, called ROCm, which works with many popular AI tools. TechStartups says Scaleway calls this “Europe’s first commercially available AI supercomputer based on AMD processors.”
Who Can Use It?
Scaleway wants startups, AI builders, and companies across Europe to rent computing power from it. That is different from some European supercomputers, like Finland’s LUMI, which are mostly used for science research.
Why Sweden?
Computers that train AI use a lot of electricity. Sweden has plenty of clean, low-carbon power, which makes it a good place for big computer centers.
What We Still Do Not Know
Scaleway has not said how much the project will cost or when it will switch on. Still, the plan shows that more companies want choices, so that AI is not controlled by just a few U.S. companies and one chip maker.
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