AMD has unveiled Helion, an open data center rack design capable of supporting up to 32,768 EPYC processor cores, with backing from major server manufacturers Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro, and availability slated for November 2026. What Helion Offers The Helion rack is built around AMD’s EPYC server processor line and is designed to…
Nvidia has open-sourced its Vera Rubin data center rack designs through the Open Compute Project, contributing the specifications via its MGX 1.2 standard alongside industry partners including AMD, Google, Meta, and Cisco. What the Open Compute Project Does The Open Compute Project is an industry initiative that publishes open hardware designs for data center infrastructure,…
Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI accelerator chip, built specifically for inference workloads and equipped with 288GB of next-generation HBM4 memory, with broader deployment planned to scale through 2027. What Maia 300 Is Built For Unlike chips optimized primarily for training large AI models, Maia 300 is designed around inference, the process…
