Advanced Micro Devices

The company's fourth-quarter data center revenue - a proxy for its AI performance - jumped 69 per cent to $3.9 billion, compared with the consensus estimate of $4.15 billion

AMD's Su also said at the event that the company does not currently have plans to use contract chip manufacturers beyond Taiwan's TSMC for advanced manufacturing processes

The 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor series expands on AMD Infinity Guard, a cutting-edge set of features that offers physical and virtual layers of protection

The other major supplier of advanced FPGAs is Intel, which acquired its market position through the purchase of Altera Corp. in 2015.

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which is working on next generation processors, plans to recruit more engineers in India for its two R&D centres. At present, around 13,000 are working in two centres located in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. "We should be continuing to grow at the existing centres. We have many open jobs at each site," AMD Senior Vice President Jim Anderson told PTI. He, however, declined to give specific number of open jobs to be filled. Asked if more Research and Development (R&D) centres will be opened in India, he said there are no plans announced yet. The company will strengthen the existing centres because a lot of advanced engineering work is being done in India. "For our Ryzen Mobo processor, lot of engineering work was done in Hyderabad," he said. Stating that India is an important market for California- based AMD, Anderson said there is a huge market for business PCs and the company aims to increase its share with aggressive marketing of its ..