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Microsoft’s decision to deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI platform across Azure marks a major escalation in the competition to supply the infrastructure behind production artificial intelligence. The expanded partnership reaches far beyond a conventional processor purchase: AMD Instinct MI455X...

Microsoft is expanding its Azure infrastructure partnership with AMD with three upcoming virtual machine families aimed at different pressure points in AI and high-performance computing: HDv2 for data-intensive AI pipelines, HXv2 for electronic design automation and technical computing, and ND...

Microsoft is making AMD’s Helios rack-scale architecture a major new pillar of Azure’s artificial intelligence infrastructure, expanding a long-running partnership from individual processors into a tightly integrated stack of GPUs, CPUs, networking hardware, and software. Announced on July 20...

Microsoft says it will deploy AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure at scale across its data centers, making the next-generation platform part of both Azure’s own AI services and capacity offered to cloud customers. The commitment, announced July 20 alongside AMD, is significant because it...