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AMD’s Advancing AI 2026 announcements give enterprises a more useful planning framework than a straight accelerator comparison: separate the infrastructure for model execution, agent orchestration, business data and high-performance computing before buying the next GPU cluster. But the headline...

AMD has moved its Helios rack-scale AI server platform into full production, with first shipments planned for the end of the third quarter—an important shift for a company that has spent years positioning its Instinct accelerators as a credible alternative to Nvidia’s dominant AI infrastructure...

AMD is preparing to bring its first Helios rack-scale AI systems into Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure, giving the chipmaker its most consequential opportunity yet to prove that it can compete with Nvidia at the level that now matters most: the entire data-center rack. The expanded partnership...

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...