Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rackscale solution to power model inference and Azure AI services, part of an expanded partnership spanning GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software. The double-wide Hel…
AMD launched Helios, its first complete open rackscale AI infrastructure system integrating Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software, marking its biggest push yet to challenge …
IREN Limited reported that demand for its GPU cloud services now exceeds supply, with contracts pricing above $15 million per megawatt. The company, formerly known as Iris Energy, has secured a multi-…
MoonMath AI launched Zro, a private inference endpoint for coding agents that serves open-weight models from EU infrastructure with zero request retention and no training on customer data. The service…
AMD shipped its first rack-scale AI system, Helios, on July 20, landing Microsoft Azure, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle as customers. One rack packs 72 MI455X GPUs, 31 TB of HBM4, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 co…
China's chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of 2024, driven by mature logic integrated circuits, while Nvidia's H200 chips have resumed limited imports into China. The US leads in advanced A…
British semiconductor wafer manufacturer IQE has raised its full-year revenue growth forecast, citing stronger-than-expected first-half trading driven by demand for its compound semiconductor products…
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system designed to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin, with Microsoft signing on as a partner to deploy it on Azure. AMD claims Helios will match or exceed Nvidia's second-…
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs with ATOM and ATOMesh achieve competitive inference performance for MiniMax-M3, a 428-billion-parameter multimodal MoE model, outperforming NVIDIA B200 and B300 in per-GPU thr…
AMD has optimized MiniMax-M3 inference on Instinct MI355X GPUs using ATOM, AITER, and ATOMesh, achieving improvements in serving throughput, token latency, and accuracy through online quantization, sp…
On a 128GB unified memory system using AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, a dense 9B model with a speculative drafter ran at just under 40 tokens per second, a 35B mixture-of-experts Qwen3.6 model with…
AMD's Ryzen AI Developer Center, bundled with Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 machines, eliminates manual ROCm and driver setup for local AI workloads, offering guided playbooks for ComfyUI, LM Studio, and Unsl…
AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, featuring 128GB unified LPDDR5X memory and a Radeon 8060S GPU, enables local machines to run 100B+ parameter large language models like GPT-OSS 120B without a discret…
AMD introduced ROCm Infera, an open-source distributed inference reference solution for large-scale deployments, claiming it can improve goodput per GPU for agentic AI workloads by up to 2.6× in inter…
AMD launched its new Helios AI rack server platform on Monday, intensifying its competition with Nvidia in the AI hardware market, Yahoo Finance reported. The chipmaker's latest offering targets data-…
Unsloth announced AMD GPU support for local LLM training and inference, enabling 500+ models to run up to 2× faster with 70% less VRAM on AMD Radeon, Instinct, Ryzen, and data center GPUs. The release…
OneXPlayer has opened pre-orders for the X2 Mini Pro, a 3-in-1 gaming handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 388 APU and Radeon 8060S iGPU, starting at $2,499. The device features up to 64 GB of RAM,…
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rack-scale AI platform at scale on Azure, making it the first hyperscaler to publicly commit to the platform. The deployment, expected to begin in the second half of…
Microsoft and AMD announced a partnership to deploy large-scale AI clusters on Azure using AMD's Helios rack design, which includes MI455X GPUs, Venice Epyc 9006 CPUs, Pensando DPUs, and the ROCm soft…
AMD stock rose more than 3% on Monday after Rosenblatt and UBS raised their price targets and Microsoft announced it will use AMD's upcoming Helios rackscale AI platform for Azure workloads. Rosenblat…