AMD has launched the Helios AI server platform to compete with Nvidia, featuring the MI350 and MI400 series chips. Key elements of the system will be openly available, contrasting Nvidia’s closed technology.

AMD’s hardware teams have tried to redefine AI inferencing with powerful chips like the Ryzen AI Max and Threadripper. But in software, the company has been largely absent where PCs are concerned. That’s changing,

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The processors typically appear in sets of eight in the Instinct MI350 series platforms. AMD also provided platform performance, with the MI350X platform delivering 577 TFLOPS in FP64 and the MI355X scoring 628.8 TFLOPS. For FP4 performance, the MI350X provided 147.6 PFLOPS, while the MI355X platform provided 161 PFLOPS.

AMD’s latest press conference highlighted a family of new GPUs and software that target artificial-intelligence (AI) applications. These tools compete with NVIDIA and Intel as well as other AI-focused hardware vendors.

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Semiconductor giant AMD acqui-hired the team behind Untether AI, a startup that develops AI inference chips, as originally reported by CRN. Untether claims that their chips are faster and more energy-efficient than their rivals. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

AMD said Thursday that its forthcoming Instinct MI350 series GPUs provide greater memory capacity and better or similar AI performance compared to Nvidia’s fastest Blackwell-based chips.

AMD has revealed its Instinct MI400 series AI chips, designed for rack-scale systems and set to compete with Nvidia's Blackwell. CEO Lisa Su highlighted the Helios unified system, while OpenAI's Sam Altman expressed confidence in the new chips.