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Microsoft deploying AMD Helios rack-scale AI accelerator system at scale on Azure, featuring Radeon Instinct MI455X GPUs and EPYC Venice CPUs for frontier model inference

AMD's first production AI inference system competing with NVIDIA; Azure gains second-source GPU infrastructure at hyperscale
Trade pressSlicast · July 21, 2026 · Global · Source: HPCwire
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