AMD has previously acquired a number of hardware companies, but the acquisition of software companies is very little. Today, AMD announced the acquisition of artificial intelligence software company Mipsology.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palaiseau, France, Mipsology is a long-time partner of AMD and has previously developed AI inference and optimization solutions and tools for AMD.
The official website was informed that Mipsology’s flagship product Zebra AI (software) supports commonly used frameworks in the industry, including TensorFlow, PyTorch and ONNX Runtime, and can be used with FPGAs such as AMD-Xilinx.
Zebra AI software on Mipsology’s FPGAs is said to be able to match GPU inference performance.
AMD said the Mipsology team has extensive experience delivering AI software and solutions based on AMD’s adaptive computing chips, and joining the AMD AI Group will further accelerate its customer engagement and expand its AI software development capabilities.
Specifically, the team will help AMD develop a full AI software stack, expanding its ecosystem of AI software tools, libraries and models and paving the way for simplified deployment of AI models running on AMD hardware.
The integration also supports AMD’s Unified AI (UAI) software stack, which provides a consistent AI training and inference interface across the edge, endpoints and cloud.
