AMD’s Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
AMD announced the Instinct MI455X, its first GPU designed for rack-scale AI deployments, based on the new CDNA5 architecture and featuring 256 Work Group Processors, 432 GB of HBM4 memory at 23.3 TB/s…
AMD announced the Instinct MI455X, its first GPU designed for rack-scale AI deployments, based on the new CDNA5 architecture and featuring 256 Work Group Processors, 432 GB of HBM4 memory at 23.3 TB/s…
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced a partnership with chip startup Cerebras to pursue disaggregated inference, splitting AI workloads across different hardware types, as AMD claims its Helios server system del…
AMD and Cerebras Systems announced a technical partnership to develop a joint Helios rack-scale AI inference platform, integrating Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine with AMD's Helios system to deliver up t…
Meta and OpenAI each committed 6 gigawatts of AMD accelerator capacity at AMD's Advancing AI 2026 conference, marking the clearest evidence yet that hyperscalers are building a real alternative to Nvi…
AMD unveiled its next-generation EPYC 9006 Series 'Venice' server CPUs on Thursday, targeting AI agent workloads and high-performance computing. CEO Lisa Su announced full production and said customer…
VAST Data is expanding its collaboration with AMD to support AMD EPYC and Instinct processors in its AI OS software, aiming to build and operate high-performance AI factories at scale. The deal includ…
AMD launched Helios, its first rack-scale AI platform, claiming the 72-GPU system outperforms Nvidia's Vera Rubin by 15-25% in AI training and offers 50% more HBM4 memory and scale-out bandwidth. The …
AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" server processors at Advancing AI 2026, promising up to 256 cores per socket, support for DDR5-8000 and MRDIMM-12800 memory, PCIe Gen 6, and roughly 20% more perfo…
AMD argues that agentic AI workloads require a CPU-to-GPU ratio of 1:1 or CPU-heavy, flipping the traditional GPU-dominant ratio of 1:4 or 1:8, according to technical analysis published by the chipmak…
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude, with the first gigawatt shipping in the first …
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced that the company's Helios AI platform is in production and outperforms Nvidia's Vera Rubin, delivering 15% better AI compute FP4, 50% better HBM capacity at 31TB, 50% better …
AMD launched the Instinct MI455X GPU with 432GB of HBM4 memory on a 2nm process, offering up to 4x the performance of the MI355X, alongside the Helios AI rack combining EPYC Venice CPUs, MI455X GPUs, …
AMD launched the Instinct MI400 Series GPUs for AI workloads, including the MI455X for frontier AI and the MI430X for sovereign AI and HPC. Built on CDNA 5 architecture and a 2nm process, the MI455X f…
AMD unveiled its Helios rack-scale platform at its Advancing AI event, claiming 50% higher bandwidth than Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 with 43 Tb/s per pod via the second-generation Pensando AI NIC 'Vulc…
Foundation, a humanoid robotics company, announced its new MK-2 Phantom humanoid robots will use AMD Ryzen chips, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market for robotics. The move s…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge built TESSERA, a planetary-scale foundation model for Earth observation, using AMD Instinct GPUs instead of Nvidia hardware. The model, trained on 16 AMD MI3…
AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event highlighted a strategy to bypass NVIDIA's CUDA moat through architecture, as argued by Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, who also claimed AI is "mid" to emphasize that the …
AMD is hosting its 'Advancing AI' event in San Francisco, California, with CEO Dr. Lisa Su expected to deliver the keynote at 09:30am PT. The company is anticipated to unveil first 'Zen 6' designs and…
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su will deliver the Advancing AI 2026 keynote in San Francisco, unveiling the company's first rackscale system, Helios, which integrates MI455X GPUs, EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, and Pensando …
The race to build AI infrastructure systems has moved beyond chip specifications into a battle over entire rack-scale platforms, as inference and agentic workloads redefine what counts as a computer, …