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According to SemiAnalysis, Nvidia has denied some neocloud providers access to its GTC Berlin conference after they added AMD GPUs or Google TPUs to their cloud offerings. The analysis firm says this follows earlier claims that Nvidia withheld early chip allocations and financial support from neoclouds that diversified their hardware, while larger hyperscalers have not faced the same treatment.
Valve software engineer Timur Kristóf has been working on optimizations to boost performance of older AMD graphics cards under Linux's open-source driver stack. The work targets legacy GPU hardware that previously saw weaker support compared to newer AMD graphics chips on Linux.
World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by AMD, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2026 pending regulatory approval. Founder Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su, while co-founders Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall continue leading the World Labs team within AMD.
AMD published results from experiments running speculative decoding in vLLM on its MI300X and MI355X Instinct GPUs using the ROCm software stack. The team compared five drafting approaches—native MTP, Gemma 4 MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, and DSpark—which differ in how draft tokens are generated and how they receive signals from the target model.