Microsoft will use AMD’s AI-optimized Helios racks in Azure
Microsoft Corp. will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s upcoming Helios rack design to power some Azure services.
The cloud and operating system giant announced the partnership today alongside three new instance families.
Helios is a reference design, a blueprint that AMD’s manufacturing partners can use to make data center racks. Each system contains 72 of the chipmaker’s upcoming Instinct MI455 graphics processing units. AMD has to date shared only a few details about the GPU. It will feature 432 gigabytes of HBM4 memory, 19.6 terabits per second of bandwidth and a new core architecture called CDNA 5.
Helios’ GPUs are supported by Pensando data processing units and Epyc central processing units.
