AMD and HPE are expanding their long-running partnership with a new agreement that will bring the AMD Helios rack-scale AI architecture into HPE’s product portfolio from 2026 onward. This will give Helios its first major OEM backer and position HPE to ship complete 72-GPU AI racks built around next-generation Instinct MI455X accelerators, new EPYC “Venice” CPUs, and an Ethernet-based scale-up fabric developed with Broadcom.
Helios has been AMD’s reference design for an open rack-level AI platform since its introduction earlier this year. It uses Meta’s Open Rack Wide mechanical standard and combines MI450-series GPUs, Venice CPUs, and Pensando networking hardware inside a liquid-cooled, double-wide chassis.
