AMD advances inclusive AI through open innovation and green computing

2026 World Internet Conference Distinguished Contribution Award recipient: AMD (Innovative Breakthrough)

Founded in Silicon Valley in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the United States, AMD is a global semiconductor leader. Drawing on its expertise in CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, adaptive system-on-chips (SoCs), DPUs and software, the company provides high-performance and adaptive computing solutions for cloud, edge and end-user devices.

China is a key market in AMD's global strategy. Established in 2004, AMD Greater China is headquartered in Beijing and has an R&D team of more than 4,000 engineers across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taipei.

In fiscal 2025, AMD invested $8.091 billion in R&D, up 25 percent year-on-year and accounting for approximately 23 percent of its annual revenue. The company also continued to pursue strategic investments, acquisitions and technology integration, strengthening its end-to-end AI capabilities across chips, systems and software ecosystems.

In 2025, AMD ranked 167th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest US companies and was named one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies. In 2024, it was included in TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential Companies.

Building an open-source ecosystem

AMD ROCm is a leading open-source software platform for AI. More than 2.1 million models on major open-source AI platforms worldwide can now run directly on ROCm. In early 2026, the platform introduced simultaneous support for Windows and Linux, extending its reach across cloud and end-user computing.

AMD Developer Cloud provides computing resources to developers worldwide. In July 2025, AMD helped establish China's first ROCm laboratory in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.

AMD has also joined nearly 100 partners in developing UALink, an open industry standard for connecting AI accelerators in data centers. The technology has been recommended to China's Open Data Center Committee. The company continues to drive collaborative innovation with partners including Meta, Microsoft, DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud.

Advancing energy efficiency through green computing

In 2021, AMD launched its 30x25 goal, aiming to improve the energy efficiency of AI training and high-performance computing nodes 30-fold by 2025, compared with 2020 levels. In June 2025, the company announced that it had exceeded the target, achieving a 38-fold improvement in node-level energy efficiency. This translates into a 97 percent reduction in energy consumption for the same computing performance.

Looking ahead, AMD has set a new rack-level efficiency target for 2030: a 20-fold improvement over 2024 levels. Combined with advances in software and algorithms, overall energy efficiency could improve by up to 100 times.

According to the November 2025 Green500 ranking, AMD-powered systems accounted for 26 of the world's 50 most energy-efficient supercomputers.

Driving product innovation and industrial applications

AMD continues to push the boundaries of chip design through its Chiplet architecture, overcoming the limitations of traditional monolithic chips.

Its Ryzen AI Max series combine CPU, GPU and NPU capabilities in a single heterogeneous architecture. With power consumption of approximately 140 watts, these processors can run large AI models locally. They support more than 100 mainstream models, including DeepSeek, Qwen and Llama, and have shipped hundreds of thousands of units worldwide. In March 2026, AMD was among the first to introduce the concept of an AI agent host.

Helios, AMD's first rackscale AI reference solution, combines AMD Instinct GPUs, AMD EPYC Server CPUs and advanced networking. It features open industry standards and high-density liquid cooling to support large-scale AI computing.

AMD is also supporting China's "AI Plus" initiative by bringing AI into practical applications across industries. In healthcare, it has partnered with Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University on local multi-department consultations and medical image analysis. In cultural heritage preservation, it has worked with Yongle Palace in Shanxi province and Shengshu Technology to explore AI-assisted mural restoration.

In June 2025, AMD launched its China industry ecosystem partnership program. The first batch of 25 partners covers five key areas: operating systems, storage, virtualization, big data and HPC, and AI. The initiative aims to accelerate AI adoption across industries.

AMD received the World Internet Conference Distinguished Contribution Award in 2024 and the IEEE 2024 Corporate Innovation Award. Its open-source ROCm software platform also received the WIC Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology in 2025. Guided by its slogan "Together We Advance", AMD will continue to drive the evolution of computing through technological innovation and ecosystem collaboration.