AMD launches Helios rack‑scale AI system, targeting Nvidia with Microsoft as first Azure customer
AMD unveiled Helios, its first fully integrated rack‑scale AI solution featuring 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 TB of HBM4 memory and 2.9 EFLOPS of FP4 compute. Microsoft will ship the system to Azure, with Meta, OpenAI and Oracle as early customers, giving AMD a direct challenger to Nvidia’s data‑center AI dominance and offering an open‑standard, high‑capacity platform.