AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system
AMD has unveiled its new Helios AI rack-scale system, aiming to compete directly with Nvidia in the data center market. Major tech companies including Microsoft and OpenAI have already committed to deploying the hardware.
Why it matters
The competition between AMD and Nvidia is critical for the infrastructure scaling of the global AI industry.
Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs.
At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known as Helios — along with its growing list of customers, including Microsoft — as the company prepares to ship it later this year. Su also pitched the company’s newest chips that are designed to feed the compute-hungry dragon that is the AI industry.
Rack systems combine many processors into a single high-powered unit . They are built for data centers, where they train and run AI models and other compute-intensive workloads.
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