AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system

AMD plans to launch its Helios rack-scale architecture in 2026 as a direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market, pending successful integration of its next-gen GPUs and processors. The chip firm's President & CEO Dr Lisa Su talked up its progress in the datacenter, AI, and server businesses during an investor …

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AMD's offering must be better than Nvidia because their rack is twice as wide...

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

What the shit

"I think we're dimensioning the supply chain in such a way that we would have ample supply to have multiple customers at similar scale as we go into the '27, '28 time frame, and that's certainly the goal," [Su] stated.

Can I get a translation into regular English from business speak?

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Re: What the shit

"By 2028, we'll hopefully have at least 5 customers, some of which might even pay us real money. We're pretty confident we will be able to supply them actual working hardware, but this is likely to be either on time or on budget, not both"

There you go....

[HCV]

"We're making plans to buy stuff to make things to, you know, sell."