AMD joins Confidential Computing Consortium

Chip maker AMD, has announced that it is building on its strong product security portfolio with expanded features after it revealed it has joined the Confidential Computing Consortium, a group of leading hardware and software companies working to close gaps to protect data through its entire lifecycle.

To address the growing number and diversity of GPU workloads, AMD announced a multi-generational roadmap to deliver two optimised graphics architectures for gaming and data centre compute markets.

The AMD Radeon DNA architecture was designed for gaming and is currently powering the award-winning AMD Radeon RX 5000 series GPUs.

According to the company, the next-generation AMD RDNA 2 architecture is planned to deliver a 50% performance-per-watt improvement over the first-generation AMD RDNA architecture. It will support hardware-accelerated ray tracing, variable rate shading (VRS) and other advanced features. The first AMD RDNA 2-based products are expected to launch in late 2020. AMD has also unveiled its new AMD Compute DNA architecture, designed to accelerate data centre compute workloads. The first-generation AMD CDNA architecture, planned to launch later this year, includes second generation AMD Infinity Architecture to enhance GPU to GPU connectivity and is optimised for machine learning and high-performance computing applications. The follow-up AMD CDNA 2 architecture will support third generation AMD Infinity Architecture to enable next generation exascale-class supercomputers.