The stock price of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) climbed significantly after announcing its partnership with Google.
AMD stock closed $26 per share, up almost 12 percent on Tuesday. The rally brought the company’s market capit
Advanced Micro Device disclosed that Google selected the high performance, custom AMD Radeon datacenter GPUs for its Vulkan and Linux-based Google Stadia.
Additionally, the semiconductor company announced that it is supporting the search engine giant’s software development tools and Linux-based, open-source Vulkan driver. Their partnership will help game developers optimize future titles that will run in the new GPU-powered platform
According to the company, custom AMD high-performance Radeon datacenter GPUs for Google Stadia include:
- Second-generation High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) to provide power savings in a compact footprint;
- Critical datacenter features such as Error Correcting Code (ECC)1 protection to help ensure data integrity;
- Fast, predictable performance with security features for cloud-based gaming, via the industry’s first hardware-based GPU virtualization solution built on industry standard SR-IOV (Single-Root I/O Virtualization) technology.
AMD and Google are committed to open-source
In a statement, Ogi Brkic, corporate vice president and general manager of the Datacenter GPU Business Unit at Advanced Micro Devices, said the company is providing unique technologies and expertise to enable world-class cloud gaming experiences by combining its gaming DNA and data center technology leadership.
