AMD EPYC Processors Drive​ Performance⁢ Gains for ASE Technology

ASE Technology holdings,the world’s largest outsourced semiconductor assembly⁤ and test provider,is seeing significant benefits from its transition to AMD ​EPYC processors and Ryzen ⁤CPUs. The‌ company is ⁣leveraging these processors⁤ across its data centers ‌and client systems to achieve improved performance and energy efficiency.

The move to‍ AMD EPYC ⁤ and ⁤Ryzen has resulted in a 50% increase in system performance​ and a‍ 6.5% reduction in power consumption, according ‌to AMD. This translates ‌to ‍a 30% decrease in total cost‍ of ownership for ASE. The ‌company is also ‌evaluating​ AMD’s Instinct MI300-series processors for AI ‌workloads.

ASE Technology headquarters.
ASE Technology headquarters. (Image credit: ASE Technology)

Jekyll Chen, director⁢ of ​IT infrastructure for ASE,⁣ emphasized the need for high performance, low latency, and high core counts to handle large volumes of data analysis.​ “We need to handle ⁤a big volume of data analysis,⁢ including leading-edge technology for AI applications and‍ our smart factories,” Chen ​said. “Stability and scalability are two primary​ goals‌ for us.”

ASE has collaborated with AMD on advanced 2.5D ⁢packaging since 2007, contributing to ​the advancement ‌of ‌high-bandwidth⁤ memory (HBM). While ASE provides packaging services for ​AMD, it remains unclear whether they package AMD’s AI GPUs, which utilize TSMC’s ‍CoWoS technology.

AMD ⁣reports growing adoption and ⁢evaluation of its Instinct processors for on-prem AI inference. ASE’s⁣ evaluation ⁣of the Instinct