Microsoft has announced it will deploy AMD’s Helios rackscale solution to power model inference both internally and for its AI customers, with the hardware also set to support the company’s Azure AI services.
In a blog post detailing the planned deployment, Microsoft said it forms part of an expanded partnership with AMD which will span the chip company’s GPUs, CPUs, networking and software on Microsoft Azure, with Helios sitting “at the center of the expansion.”
The financial terms of the deal or its expected capacity have not been shared.
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Alongside the Helios deployment, the agreement will see Microsoft also add two VM series, Azure HDv2 for agentic AI and data pipelines, and Azure HXv2 for semiconductor design, to Azure. Both will be powered by AMD's sixth-generation ‘Venice’ Epyc CPUs.
