AMD Unveils Helios Rack-Scale AI Infrastructure Platform
AMD unveiled Helios at its Advancing AI 2026 event in San Francisco, pairing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with sixth-generation EPYC Venice CPUs, Pensando networking, and the ROCm software stack. The liquid-cooled, Open Rack Wide design targets both large-scale training and inference, positioning rack infrastructure as an integrated compute system for denser AI data centers and intensifying competition on platform design.