AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots

AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot.

The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include Eric Trump. For a company long cast as the perennial number two in AI silicon, the choice of battleground is pointed.

The company is not a conventional robotics outfit. Its Phantom machines have been tested in Ukraine, and Foundation has since won Pentagon contracts to develop humanoid robots for the US military. Heavy industry and the battlefield are, in its telling, the same market.

Under the deal, announced on July 23, Foundation’s robots will run on AMD’s Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors, the embedded chips the company introduced in January. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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