US Department of Energy Forms $1 Billion Supercomputer and AI Partnership With AMD (reuters.com)
(Monday October 27, 2025 @12:52PM (msmash)
from the pushing-the-limits dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/27/1526208/us-department-of-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-and-ai-partnership-with-amd
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/
The U.S. has [1]formed a $1 billion partnership with AMD to construct two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security, said Energy Secretary Chris Wright and AMD CEO Lisa Su. From a report:
> The U.S. is building the two machines to ensure the country has enough supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability. The machines can accelerate the process of making scientific discoveries in areas the U.S. is focused on.
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> Energy Secretary Wright said the systems would "supercharge" advances in nuclear power and fusion energy, technologies for defense and national security, and the development of drugs. Scientists and companies are trying to replicate fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, by jamming light atoms in a plasma gas under intense heat and pressure to release massive amounts of energy. "We've made great progress, but plasmas are unstable, and we need to recreate the center of the sun on Earth," Wright told Reuters.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/
> The U.S. is building the two machines to ensure the country has enough supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability. The machines can accelerate the process of making scientific discoveries in areas the U.S. is focused on.
>
> Energy Secretary Wright said the systems would "supercharge" advances in nuclear power and fusion energy, technologies for defense and national security, and the development of drugs. Scientists and companies are trying to replicate fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, by jamming light atoms in a plasma gas under intense heat and pressure to release massive amounts of energy. "We've made great progress, but plasmas are unstable, and we need to recreate the center of the sun on Earth," Wright told Reuters.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/
What about Intel (Score:2)
by rowls ( 225157 )
Surprising that the deal was made with AMD when the U.S. government has an equity stake in Intel.
Re: (Score:2)
by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )
AMD must have given him a bigger golden trinket.
Nice (Score:2)
It's amazing that someone is around to sign any industry fatcat deals while the government is shutdown and unable to pay federal workers.
Hooray for oligarchy (Score:3)
Medicare Telehealth is cancelled for most patients during the shutdown, which has my disabled mother scrambling to find new in-person appointments. It's rather difficult for her to travel, and the paratransit service makes her wait in the cold weather for pickups (she has COPD, edema, reoccurring kidney infection)
But hey, as long as incompetent morons fill the seats in D.C. and the oligarchy is happy we can tell everyone that is struggling how bigly the numbers are of our AI bubble economy.
Re: (Score:2, Troll)
Amazing that the party currently controlling all 3 branches of the government can't find a way to keep it running. In one day they could end the filibuster and even vote to take away grandpa's keys to the tariff tirade. But they're all massive pussies who dare not anger dear leader.