AMD touts Instinct MI430X, MI440X, and MI455X AI accelerators and Helios rack-scale AI architecture at CES — full MI400-series family fulfills a broad range of infrastructure and customer requirements

AMD Helios rack system.

Artificial intelligence is arguably the hottest technology around, so it's not surprising that AMD used part of its CES keynote to reveal new information about its upcoming Helios rack-scale solution for AI as well as its next-generation Instinct MI400-series GPUs for AI and HPC workloads. In addition, the company is rolling out platforms designed to wed next-generation AI and HPC accelerators with existing data centers.

Helios is AMD's first rack-scale system solution for high-performance computing deployments based on AMD's Zen 6 EPYC 'Venice' CPU. It packs 72 Instinct MI455X-series accelerators with 31 TB of HBM4 memory in total with aggregate memory bandwidth of 1.4 PB/s, and it's meant to deliver up to 2.9 FP4 exaFLOPS for AI inference and 1.4 FP8 exaFLOPS for AI training. Helios has formidable power consumption and cooling requirements, so it is meant to be installed into modern AI data centers with sufficient supporting infrastructure.