AMD Takes on Nvidia With Its Helios AI Rack-Scale System

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What a rack-scale system actually is

What's inside Helios

The memory advantage

What Lisa Su claimed on stage

The customer list is the real story

The Anthropic deal is enormous

How it stacks up against Nvidia on paper

It isn't cheaper, and that's deliberate

The software problem hasn't gone away

What analysts expect to happen

Why this matters beyond the two companies

Venice CPUs launched alongside it

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For years Nvidia has had the AI data centre market more or less to itself, holding well over 90% share and setting the pace with its rack-scale systems. That comfortable position just got its first real challenge in a long while. At AMD's sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on 23 July, CEO Lisa Su unveiled Helios, the company's first full rack-scale AI system, with a customer list that already includes Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI. Here's what it means.
 

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